Ch 14!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Preston Brooks

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a South Carolina representative. He was a slaveholder who beat Sumner, the ant-slavery Senator from Massachusetts, with a cane, earning the name "Bully Brooks"

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Squatter Sovereignty

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a formula leaving the determination of the status of slavery to the occupants of the region.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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- suspected fugitives denied a trial by jury, the right to testify on their own behalf, and other Constitutional rights.

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Franklin Pierce

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The Democratic nominee and winner of the election of 1852. He didn't stand for any major issues and was innefectual.

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Ostend Manifesto

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Urged the acquisition of Cuba by any means necessary. When it became public, Northerners claimed it was a plot to extend slavery and the manifesto was disavowed.

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Impending Crisis of the South
Lecompton Constitution

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Called on lower class whites to resist planter domination and abolish slavery in their own interest

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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An enormously successful novel that fixed int he northern mind the image of a slaveholder as a brutal Simon Legree. It portrayed slavery as a threat to the family and cult of domesticity.

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Compromise of 1850

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California admitted as free state, slave trade prohibited in District of Colombia, Strong fugitive slave law passed, enlarged New Mexico territory to be admitted on base of popular sovereignty.

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Freeport Doctrine

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Lincoln questioned Douglas on how he could reconcile such popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott Decision. Douglas replied that slavery could not exist without supportive legislation to sustain it and that territorial legislatures could simply refrain from passing a slave code if they wanted to keep it out.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands

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Know-Nothings

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campaigned against immigrants, specifically new arrivals from Ireland, fear of takeover of slavery

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John Brown

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revolutionary abolitionist in the United States, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection

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James Buchanan

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only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a life-long bachelor, and the last one born in the 18th century.