Apush Chapter 19 (1854-1861)

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New England Emigrant Aid Company

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Organization created to facilitate the migration of free laborers to Kansas in order to prevent the establishment of slavery in that territory

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Lecompton Constitution

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Proposed Kansas Constitution, whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory

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Bleeding Kansas

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Civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory, fought intermittently until 1861, when it merged with the wider National Civil War

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Fred Scott v. Standford

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Supreme Court decision that extended federal protection to slavery by ruling that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory

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Panic of 1857

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Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, overspeculation, and excess grain production

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Tariff of 1857

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Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the U.S. Senate race in Illinois

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Freeport question

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"Should the Court or the people decide the future of slavery in the territories?"

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Freeport Doctorine

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Declared that since slavery could not exist without laws to protect it, territorial legislatures, not the Supreme Court, would have the final say on the slavery question

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Harpers Ferry

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Federal arsenal in Virginia seized by abolitionist John Brown in 1859

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Constitutional Union party

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Forms by moderate Whigs and Know-Nothings in an effort to elect a compromise candidate and avert a sectional crisis

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Confederate States of America

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Government established after seven Southern states seceded from the Union

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Crittenden amendments

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Proposed in an attempt to appease the South, the failed Constitutional amendments would have given federal protection for slavery in all territories south of 36°30' where slavery was supported by popular sovereignty