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30 Cards in this Set
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this law was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. It denied a fleeing slave a jury trial and the right to testify in his own behalf. This "Bloodhound Bill" made northerners liable if they helped slaves escape
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Fugitive Slave Law
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The "Hero of Buena Vista", the 1848 Whig canidate for president, and the winner of that election
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Zachory Taylor
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the man who negotiated the 1853 treaty which ceded part of the mexican territory to the U.S. for $10 million
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James Gadson
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the 73-year old kentucky senator who engineered the compromise of 1850
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henry clay
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the anti-slaveryite advocate of God's moral law in the senate. he was the wiry and husky-throated freshman senator from new york who opposed concession in 1850.
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Seward
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in 1850-1851 2 armed expiditions went to this island with the idea of siezing new territory for the U.S
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Cuba
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the democrat's nominating convention of 1852 startled the nation by selecting a "dark horse" canidate. they chose this unknown lawyar-polotition from the hills of new hampshire
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franklin pierce
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the illinois senator of the 1850's who pushed for westward expansion as a way to help railroad intrests of his state
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stephan A. Douglas
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the colorless and conciliatory new york lawyer-polotition who succeeded to the presidency upon Taylor's death in 1850
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millard Fillmore
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the massachusetts senator whose famed 7th of march speech was his finest if measured immediete effects
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Webster
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although the democtats and whigs were silent about slavery in the 1858 election, this party came out for the wilmot Proviso and against slavery in thee territories
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free-soil
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the american steamer which was seized by spanish officials in 1854 as a show of force after americans tried to seize cuba by force
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black worrior
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southerners in the 1850's supported this puchas which was necessary for a southern railroad to california
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Gadson
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the 1854 act of congress which brushed aside the missouri compramise in favor of popular sovereignty and wetward expansion
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Kansas-Nabraska Act
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the convention called by southern extremists in 1850 that came out strongly for slavery and opposed the comromise being argued in congress
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Nashville
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the 68 year old south carolina senator who opposed the compromise of 1850
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Jhon C. Calhoun
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the nickname for the southern counterpart to the northern abolitionist of the 1850's
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fire-eater
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the u.s. naval commander who persuaded the Japanes in 1854 to open their doors to limited trade
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matthew C. Perry
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the reputed "father of popular Soverignty" who was the democratic canidate for president in 1848
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lewis Cass
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the doctrine which stated that people of a given territory should themselves determine the status of slavery
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popular sovereignty
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the kansas nabraska act of 1854 can claim credit for the birth of this political party
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republican
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the able genral known as "old fuss and feathers" who was chosen to represent the whig party in the 1852 election
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winfield scott
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an opponent of the compromise of 1850. he appealed with reference excluding slavery in the territories, to an even "higher law" than the constitution
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will seward
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the state in the 1850's that claimed parts of what are now Wyoming, colorado, and new mexico
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texas
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the england document drawn up by th u.s. diplomats in spain, england, and france in 1854 as a device to justify seizing cuba
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osterd manifesto
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the woman from maryland, an illiterate runaway slave herself, who rescued more than 300 slaves in her work for the underground railroad
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harriet tubman
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the network of anti-slavery homes used to assist runaway slaves in reaching canada
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underground railroad
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the free-soil canidate for president in 1848
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martin Van Buren
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the 1850 treaty which stipulated that neither america or britain would fortify or secure exclusive control over any further (central american ) ishmian wateway.
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clayton-bulwer
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the winner of the presidential election of 1852
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franklin pierce
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