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32 Cards in this Set
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Lewis Cass
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Michigan senator who proposed popular sovereignty
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Popular sovereignty
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Allows citizens of new territories to vote on whether to permit slavery
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David Wilmot
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Pennsylvanian representative introduced amendment to bill
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Wilmot Proviso
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Banned slavery from all lands acquired from Mexico
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Zachary Taylor
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Mexican war hero and presidential candidate
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Free-Soil Party
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Demanded Congress prohibit slavery in territories
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Henry Clay
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Senator who urged compromise
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Daniel Webster
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Clay's rival, a veteran Whig leader
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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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Attacker of Clay and leader of the fire-heaters
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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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Clays measures to compromise slavery conflict
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Franklin Pierce
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A strong supporter of Compromise of 1850 and presidential candidate
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Winfield Scott
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Whig candidate in election of 1852
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Antislavery author who wrote 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 led Pottawatomie Massacre and Harpers Ferry Raid
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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Led by John Brown, five proslavery settlers killed
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Republican Party
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New party reformed with intent of antislavery
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James Buchanan
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Democrat candidate
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Lecompton Constitution
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Gave the voters of Kansas the right to decide whether more slaves could enter the territory
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Roger B Taney
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Chief Justice that decided Dred Scott case
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Dred Scott
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A slave held by John Emerson suing for the freedom
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Dred Scott decision
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Decision that Dred Scott had no right to bring case before the court, since he wasn't a citizen
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Abraham Lincoln
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President during civil war
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Stephen Douglas
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Lincoln's opponent who broached popular sovereignty
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Freeport Doctrine
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Defense of popular sovereignty
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John Bell
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Nominated for president in 1860 for Constitutional Union Party
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John Breckenridge
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Southern Democratic candidate
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Confederate States of America
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Seven seceding states
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Jefferson Davis
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Provisional president of the Confederacy
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