Week 12 Study Guide

 

People and Terms:

“Beecher’s Bibles”

“Bleeding Kansas”

Border Ruffians

Charles Sumner

Compromise of 1850

Cotton vs. Conscience Whigs

Dred Scott decision

Free-Soilers

Fugitive Slave Law

Great Debate of 1850

John Brown

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Margaret Garner

Popular Sovereignty

Pottawatamie Creek

Preston Brooks

Republican Party

Sectionalism

Stephen Douglas

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Wilmot Proviso

 

Map:

Nebraska territory

Kansas