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20 Cards in this Set
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Daniel Webster 7th of March Speech
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Whigs, Prominant politician of the era, his speech resulted in the compromise of 1850, the speech also helped sway the North towards compromise
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mercantillism/Navigation Acts
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economic system developing during the decay of feudalism to unify and increase the power, series of laws restricting foreign shipping
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Pickney's treaty
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gave Am. free navigation of the Miss. River and lrg. disputed terr. N. of Fl.
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Monroe Doctrine
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proclaimed europes should no longer colonize of interfere with the affairs of the americas
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LA Purchase
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when Am bought lots of land from napolean in 1803
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popular sovereignty
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what the people want
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First Greak Awakening
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religous movement among American colonial Protestants in 1730s and 1740s
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Constitution
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1787: supreme law for america, adopted at constitutional convention in Philidelphia
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MO compromise
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Miss=slave st. Maine=free States N of 36 30 were free
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Proclamation of 1763
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from BR. prohibits settlement beyond appalachian mtn.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Written by harriet beecher stowe showing what slavery was really like to the north
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Lecompton Constitution
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Kansas(issure of slaves), tactic by pro-slavery forces to make sure slavery is allowed in Kansas
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mid 1800s nativism
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Irish immigrants, nativists=opposed to immigration, the Irish were catholic & nativists didn't like them, Irish/German immegrants
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Panic of 1857
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close to the start of the civil war, the N market was hurt, the S prospered (king cotton)
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Constitutional Union party in election of 1860
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9do-nothing, or old gentlemens party), old whigs and know-nothings, met in baltimore and elected john bell for pres.
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Stephan A. Douglas
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Lincoln-Douglas debates, he ran for pres., he ran for senate, he supp. pop sov, he was the reason for the split of the dem party, worked with the comp 1850
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Kansas Nebraska
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douglas propses kansas be cut into kansas and nebraska and pop sov rule slavery 1854
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Hartford Convention
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end of the war 1812, fed opposision, the feds die
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Dred Scott
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slave went to court to sue for freedom after living in free states for years, court said he was property
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Colonial regional characteristics
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N= rocky, business
E=ocean, sea S=plantations, slaves W=moving, expansion |
