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Chapter Fourteen

The House Divided,

1846-1861

Chapter Fourteen Key Terms

• David Wilmot• Wilmot Proviso• Lewis Cass• Popular Sovereignty• Zachary Taylor• Slide 7• Free Soil Party• Martin Van Buren

• Omnibus Bill• Henry Clay• “Fire-Eaters”• Stephen Douglas• Compromise of 1850• Slide 14• Fugitive Slave Law• Millard Fillmore

Chapter Fourteen Key Terms

• Personal Liberty Laws

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin• Harriet Beecher

Stowe Slide 15• Conscience Whigs• Cotton Whigs

• Franklin Pierce• Gadsden Purchase• James Gadsden• Transcontinental

Railroad• Kansas-Nebraska

Act (1854) Slide 9

Chapter Fourteen Key Terms

• Know-Nothing Party• Republican Party• John C. Fremont• James Buchanan• Slide 10• “Bleeding Kansas”• Sack of Lawrence• John Brown

• Slide 11• Pottawatomie

Massacre• Preston Brooks• Charles Sumner• “Bleeding Sumner”• Dred Scott v.

Sanford Slide 16

Chapter Fourteen Key Terms

• Slave Power Conspiracy

• Abraham Lincoln• Lecompton

Constitution• Freeport Doctrine• John Brown

• Harper’s Ferry• Charleston, SC• Stephen Douglas• John C.

Breckinridge• Abraham Lincoln• John Bell• Slide 12

Chapter Fourteen Key Terms

• 20 December 1860• South Carolina• Lower South• Confederate States

of America• Jefferson Davis

• Alexander Stephens• 4 March 1861• Thirteenth

Amendment• Slide 13