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32 Cards in this Set
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Popular Sovereignty
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Practice of allowing voters in a territory to decide whether to permit slavery there.
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Fire-Eaters
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Southern political leaders who held extreme pro-slavery views.
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Lewis Cass
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He was a Michigan senator and proposed that territories rely on popular sovereignty.
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David Wilmot
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Was a Pennsylvania representative that introduced an amendment to the bill, a bill to authorize funds to buy territory from Mexico.
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Wilmot Proviso
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He banned slavery in all lands that would be acquired from Mexico.
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Zachary Taylor
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He was a General and a Mexican War Hero and was very popular in "politics".
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Free-Soil Party
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Political party formed by antislavery Whigs and Democrats in 1848; opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories.
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Henry Clay
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After being weary and ill he returned to Congress after a long absence in early 1850.
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Daniel Webster
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He was the veteran Whig leader and worked with Henry Clay to satisfy both the North and South in terms of slavery.
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John C. Calhoun
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He was the main heat in debate when Henry gave his proposal, and was the south's elder statesman and a leading fire-eater with pro-slavery views.
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Millard Fillmore
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He favored the Compromise of 1850 and at the time was Vice President.
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Compromise of 1850
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Agreement proposed by Henry Clay; allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty; also settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and toughened fugitive slave laws.
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Franklin Pierce
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He was of New Hampshire and a strong supporter of the Compromise of 1850.
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Winfield Scott
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He was a general and a Mexican War hero and the whigs didn't believe Scott would enforce the Compromise of 1850.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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(1850) Law that made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves and allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves even in areas where slavery was illegal.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Published Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that proved to be particularly significant.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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(1854) Law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed voters there to choose whether to allow slavery.
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John Brown
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He attacked a pro-slavery settlement along Pottawatomie Creek, also was a abolitionist.
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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(1856) Incident in which a group led by abolitionist John Brown murdered five pro-slavery Kansans.
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Republican Party
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Political party formed in 1854 by antislavery Whigs and Democrats, along with some Free-Soilers.
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James Buchanan
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He was from Pennsylvania and ran for president in 1856.
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Lecompton Constitution
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(1857) Kansas constitution; gave voters the right to decide whether slavery should exist there.
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Dred Scott
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A slave held by John Emerson, an army surgeon from Missouri.
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Roger B. Taney
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Chief Justice, and one of the five southerners on the Court, wrote the majority opinion against Scott in March 1857.
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Dred Scott decision
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Supreme Court ruling that African Americans were not U.S. citizens, that the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery was unconstitutional, and that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in any federal territory.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Republican, and ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate the year after the Dred Scott case.
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Stephen Douglas
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Ran against Abe Lincoln in seeking a third term for the Senate. Was known as the Little Giant.
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Freeport Doctrine
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Statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates arguing that people in the territories had the power to ban slavery by refusing to pass laws to protect it.
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John Bell
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Was nominated as president in the election of 1860 and was of Tennessee.
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John Breckinridge
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Was the Vice President of John Bell.
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Confederate States of America
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The Confederacy; nation formed by seceding southern states in 1861.
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Jefferson Davis
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Was the provisional president of teh Confederacy, also was a former U.S. senator and secretary of war.
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