APUSH AMSCO CHAPTER 12-13 KEY TERM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

APUSH AMSCO CHAPTER 12-13 KEY TERM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS free-soil movement - Answer️️ -opposed the expansion of slavery in new states (particularly out west) ; subcatagory of the Republican party who were also abolitionists ; popular during the late antebellum period ; Abe Lincoln was the most influential person of this political party free soil party - Answer️️ -Formed in , dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory. conscience Whigs - Answer️️ -anti-slavery Whigs who opposed both the Texas annexation and the Mexican war on moral grounds. "barnburners" - Answer️️ -Conscience Whigs and Free-soilers were known as this; their defection threatened to destroy the Democratic Party Popular sovereignty - Answer️️ -The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government Lewis Cass - Answer️️ -He was nominated as President after Polk and he evolved a doctrine of popular sovereignty. He argued that slavery should be kept out of Congress and left to the people. ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM Page | 2 Henry Clay - Answer️️ -United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states () Zachary Taylor - Answer️️ -General that was a military leader in Mexican-American War and 12th president of the United States. Sent by president Polk to lead the American Army against Mexico at Rio Grande, but defeated. Compromise of 1850 - Answer️️ -Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War Stephen A. Douglass - Answer️️ -A Democratic Senator from Illinois who debated Abraham Lincoln during his run for Senator in the Lincoln-Douglass Debates. He was an avid supporter of the Compromise of 1850, supported popular sovereignty, he rescued Clay's faltering compromise, he divided the compromise into 5 parts to he could mobilize a majority for each issue separately Millard Fillmore - Answer️️ -Successor of President Zachary Taylor after his death on July 9th 1850. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs for the compromise. Fugitive Slave Laws - Answer️️ -a law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850 designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage Underground Railroads - Answer️️ -A system of escape routes to the north. Virtual freedom train that was a chain of "stations" (antislavery homes) through which scores of "passengers" (runaway slaves) were spirited by "conductors" (white/black abolitionists) from the slvae states to the free soil of Canada. ©SOPHIABENNETT 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR 7:59 PM Page | 3 Harriet Tubman - Answer️️ -United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North () Harriet Beecher Stowe - Answer️️ -Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852. The book persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Answer️️ -Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict. Hinton R Helper - Answer️️ -Wrote The Impending Crisis,