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17 Cards in this Set
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Compromise of 1850 |
Stephen Douglas's resolution to Henry Clay's slavery plan |
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Judge in the Dred Scott decision |
Roger B. Taney |
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Henry David Thoreau |
Wrote "Civil Disobedience" |
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The Freeport Doctrine |
result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates |
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won the 1848 presidential election |
Zachary Taylor |
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Taylor and Cass |
presidential candidates who ignored the issue of slavery in the 1848 election |
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Wilmot Proviso |
banned slavery in the newly acquired territory purchased from Mexico (Mexican Cession) though it never passed through both houses of Congress |
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John C. Calhoun |
offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso |
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preserved the balance between free and slave states |
The Missouri Compromise |
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Lewis Cass |
Democratic candidate of the 1848 Election |
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believed that neither Congress or local governments had the authority to ban slavery |
John C. Calhoun |
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Main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates |
slavery |
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Violent opponent of slavery |
John Brown |
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Abstain |
to not vote |
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Texas |
state annexed by James K. Polk |
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President of the United States in 1853 |
Franklin Pierce |
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Fugitive Slave Act result |
anger in the North |
