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66 Cards in this Set
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"Secession! Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle"
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Webster
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Pro Slavery Southerners called
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"fire-eaters"
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Election of 1848 Democrats chose
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General Cass
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"father of popular sovereignty"
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Cass
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Whigs cashed in on... to chose...
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"Taylor fever"
Zachary Taylor |
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Third party formed that drew votes from Whigs
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Free Soil Party
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Free Soil Party contained many
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"Conscience Whigs"
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Free Soil Party foreshadowed
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Repub party
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Free Soil nominated
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Van Buren
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Adventurers poured in CA singing
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"O Susannah"
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What was one outrageous cost of Gold Rush?
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Laundry service, some sent clothes to Hawaiian Islands
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Mining technique
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placer mining using "long tom"
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"If a man is going to CA, he announces it with some hesitation; because it is a confession that he has failed at home"
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Emerson
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North wished abolition of slavery in
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DC
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Three words associated with underground railroad
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"stations" (homes)
"passengers" (running away slaves) "conductors" (abolitionists) |
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Named "moses"
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet worked to bring education to freed slaves of what state after war?
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NC
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"Fire Eaters" announced intent to meet in ___ the following year in October 1849 to consider secession
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Nashville
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"Immortal trio"
Old Guard |
Clay
Calhoun Webster |
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"Little Giant"
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Senator Douglas
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"Great Nullifier"
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Calhoun
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"I have, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation on the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion"
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Calhoun's words, spoken by younger colleague
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"The South! The South! God knows what will become of her!"
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Calhoun
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"Let us not be pygmies in a case that calls for men"
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Webster
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Famous Webster speech
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Seventh of March Speech
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Young Guard from the ___, included_____, who believed in a ____
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North, Wiliam Seward, Higher law
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Taylor died, presidency filled by VP ____
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Millard Fillmore
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"Senetorial Giants"
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Webster, Douglas, Calhoun
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Fugitive Slave Law nugget
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"Bloodhound Bill"
"Man-Stealing Law" |
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Federal commissioner who handled case of a fugitive would receive
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five dollars if runaway was freed, ten dollars if not
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"This filthy enactment was made in the nineteenth century by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God"
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Emerson
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What caused Bostonian to think "we went to bed one night old fashioned conservative Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists"
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Fugitive Slave law
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In reaction to Fugitive Slave Law, northern states passed
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personal liberty laws
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"We execrate it, we spit upon it, we trample it under our feet"
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Garrison
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Second "dark horse" president
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Pierce
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Whigs went with
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Scott
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"finality men" voted for .... since they opposed Scott
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Webster, but he had died two weeks prior to election
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Free Soil candidate that siphoned votes from Northern Whigs
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John Hale
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US signed treaty with ____ regarding central America
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New Granada
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Treaty that said America nor Britain would pursue control of any isthmian waterway
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Clayton Bulwer Treaty
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Who tried to grab control of central America and instituted slavery when he became president of area?
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Walker
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Name of expedition that descended upon Cuba
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filibustering
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Ship Spanish officials seized?
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Black Warrior
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War England France and Russia were engaged in during the same time period
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Crimean War
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Document that urged government to buy Cuba for 120 million or take it by force
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Ostend Manifesto
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Nugget for Ostend Manifesto
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"manifesto of brigands"
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Diplomat dispatched to make peace with China
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Cushing
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Helped sign the____
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Treaty of Wanghia
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Long ruling warrior dynasty in Japan
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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Fillmore dispatched commodore _____ to enter relations with Japan
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Matthew Perry
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They landed in
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Edo (later Tokyo) Bay
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One special present Perry brought to Japanese.
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Miniature steam locomotive and 350 feet of track
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Therefore... _____ was signed with Japanese
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Treaty of Kanagawa
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Some tried to import ___ otherwise known as ____ to US as means of overland travel
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camels... "ships of the desert"
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Secretary of War under Fillmore
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Jefferson Davis
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Appointed ____ to acquire land to east of Texas
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Gadsden
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Douglas had heavily invested in ____ real estate
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Chicago
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Douglas outlined laws that would govern
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Kansas and Nebraska
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"the North wanted to give to pioneers in the West a clean bed with no snakes in it"
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Lincoln
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After the Kansas Nebraska act, Douglass predicted a
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"hell of a storm"
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Advocate of popular sovereignty and member of Democratic party.
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Douglas
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Greased a slipper slope to Civil war
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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"The Fugitive slave law did much to unglue the eyes of men, and now the Nebraska Bill eaves us staring"
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Emerson
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Most durable offspring of K/N act
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Repub party
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described K/N bill as "at once the worst and the best Bill on which Congress ever acted"
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Charles Sumner
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Name of railroad Douglas proposed.
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Union Pacific Railroad
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