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30 Cards in this Set
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Hotheaded southern agitators who pushed for southern interests and favored secession from the union |
Fire-eaters |
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The doctrine that the issue of slavery should be decided by the residents of a territory themselves, not by the federal government |
Popular sovereignty |
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The boundary line between slave and free states in the east, originally the southern border of Pennsylvania |
Mason-dixon line |
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The informal network that conducted runaway slaves from the south to canada |
Underground railroad |
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Senator william seward's doctrine that slavery should be excluded from the territories as contrary to a divine moral law standing above even the constitution |
Higher law |
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The provision of the compromise of 1850 that comforted southern slave-catchers and aroused the wrath of northern abolitionists |
Fugitive slave law |
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Third-party entry in the election of 1848 that opposed slavery expansion and prepared the way for the republican party |
Free soil party |
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A series of agreements between north and south that temporarily dampened the slavery controversy and led to a short-lived era of national good feelings |
Compromise of 1850 |
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Political party that fell apart and disappeared after losing the election of 1852 |
Whigs |
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An agreement between britain and america concerning any future central america canal |
Clayton-bulwer treaty |
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A top-secret dispatch, drawn up by american diplomats in europe, that detailed a plan for seizing cuba from spain |
Ostend manifesto |
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Southwestern territory acquired by the pierce administration to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad |
Gadsden purchase |
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The sectional agreement of 1820, repealed by the kansas-nebraska act |
Missouri Compromise |
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The political party that was deeply divided by douglas' kansas-nebraska act |
Democratic party |
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A new political party organized as a protest against the kansas-nebraska act |
Republican party |
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Democratic presidential candidate in 1848, original proponent of the idea of "popular sovereignty" |
Lewis cass |
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Whig president who nearly destroyed the compromise of 1850 before he died in office |
Zachary taylor |
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Acquired from mexico in 1848 and admitted as a free state in 1850 without ever having been a territory |
California |
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Place where the slave trade was ended by the compromise of 1850 |
District of Columbia |
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Famous "conductor" on the underground railroad who rescued more than 300 slaves from bondage |
Harriet tubman |
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Northern spokesman whose support for the compromise of 1850 earned him the hatred of abolitionists |
Daniel webster |
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New York senator who argued that the expansion of slavery was forbidden by a "higher law" |
William Seward |
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Organized as territories under the compromise of 1850, with their decision about slavery left up to popular sovereignty |
Utah and new mexico |
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Weak democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionist schemes |
Franklin pierce |
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Military hero of the mexican war who became the whigs' last presidential candidate in 1852 |
Winfield scott |
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Central american nation desired by proslavery expansionists in the 1850s |
Nicaragua |
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American naval commander who opened japan to the west in 1854 |
Matthew perry |
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Rich spanish colony coveted by american proslavery expansionists in the 1850s |
Cuba |
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Organized as territories under Douglas' controversial law of 1854 that left their decision on slavery up to popular sovereignty |
Kansas and Nebraska |
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Illinois politician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 but then reiginited it in 1854 |
Stephen a. Douglas |
