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16 Cards in this Set
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Franklin Pierce |
14th president |
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nativism - |
native-born people over immigrants |
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Know-Nothing Party |
Political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants |
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Free-Soil Party |
Political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories |
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Republican Party |
Political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories |
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Horace Greeley |
Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly-formed Republican Party |
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John C. Frémont |
Republican candidate in the 1856 presidential election |
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James Buchanan |
15th president |
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Sec 3 ^ |
Sec 4 (below) |
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Dred Scott |
Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory |
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Roger B. Taney |
Chief Justice who wrote the ruling in the Dred Scott case |
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Abraham Lincoln |
President during the Civil War |
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Freeport Doctrine |
Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it |
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Harpers Ferry |
Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves |
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Confederacy |
“Confederate States of America,” formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceded from the Union |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate States of America |
