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37 Cards in this Set
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Lewis Cass
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Michigan senator proposed the territories rely on popular sovereignty
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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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David Wilmot
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Of pennsylvania introduced and amendment to the bill
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Wilmot Proviso
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Banned slaver in all lands that would be acquired from Mexico
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Zachary Taylor
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Mexican War Hero
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Free Soil Party
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Political party formed by antislavery Whigs and Democrats in 1848; opposed the expansion into the territories
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Henry Clay
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He returned to Congress after a long absence
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Daniel Webster
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The veteran Whig leader, presented a plan for satisfying both northern and southern interest
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fire-eaters
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a group of southern political leaders who held extreme pro-slavery views
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John C. Calhoun
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He was the South's elder statesman and a leader fire-eater with pro-slavery views
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Millard Fillmore
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Vice President who favored the compromise
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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
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Winfield Scott
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A General and a hero of the Mexican War
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Law that made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves even areas where slavery was illegal
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Published Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska on the basis of popular sovereignty
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John Brown
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Abolitionist who attacked a pro-slavery settlement along Pottawatomie
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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Incident in which a group led my abolitionist John Brown murdered five pro-slavery Kansans
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Republican Party
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Political party formed in 1854 by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, along with some free soilers
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James Buchanan
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The Democrats passed over incumbent Franklin Pierce, nominating instead he of Pennsylvania for president
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Lecompton Constitution
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Gave the voters of Kansas only the right to decide whether more slaves could enter the territory. not whether slavery should indeed exist in the territory
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska on the basis of popular sovereignty
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John Brown
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Abolitionist who attacked a pro-slavery settlement along Pottawatomie
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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Incident in which a group led my abolitionist John Brown murdered five pro-slavery Kansans
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Republican Party
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Political party formed in 1854 by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, along with some free soilers
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James Buchanan
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The Democrats passed over incumbent Franklin Pierce, nominating instead he of Pennsylvania for president
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Lecompton Constitution
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Gave the voters of Kansas only the right to decide whether more slaves could enter the territory. not whether slavery should indeed exist in the territory
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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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One of 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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His outraged abolitionists and other opponents of the expansion of slavery
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Abraham Lincoln
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He ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate; republican; didnt have many friends
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Stephen Douglas
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In 1858 he ran against Senator; was seeding a third term in the Senate
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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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Nominated for President; they tried to play down sectional differences
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John Breckinridge
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Southerners nominated him for Vice President
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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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He was a Mississippi planter and former U.S. senator and secretary of war who got chosen for President of the Confederacy
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