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10 Cards in this Set
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Mississippi native who was elected president of the Confederacy |
Jefferson Davis |
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Abolitionists' violent response to the Sack of Lawrence in Kansas |
Pottawatomie Massacre |
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Rebellion staged by a group of abolitionists at Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
John Brown's Raid |
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Document that would have prohibited slavery in any part of the Mexican Cession |
Wilmont Proviso |
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U.S. Senator from Illinois who proposed that the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Stephen Douglas |
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Act of formally withdrawing from the Union |
Secession |
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Idea that the police would enforce the voters' decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case |
Freeport Doctrine |
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Political group formed by antislavery northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso |
Free-Soil Party |
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Democratic candidate in the election of 1852 who promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 |
Franklin Pierce |
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Law that made it a crime to assist runaway slaves |
Fugitive Slave Act |
