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31 Cards in this Set
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Popular sovereignty
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Allowed citizens to vote on slavery
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David Wilmot
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Introduced an amendment to the bill
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Wilmot Proviso
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Banned slavery in all lands
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Zachary Taylor
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Mexican war hero
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Free-Soil party
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Whigs and Democrats formed this
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Daniel Webster
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Veteran Whig leader
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Henry Clay
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Returned to Congress
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fire-eaters
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Southernors that supported the breakup of the union.
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John C. Calhoun
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South's elder statesman
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Millard Fillmore
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Vice president
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Compromise of 1850
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Passed Clay's measures
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Franklin Pierce
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Strong supporter of the Compromise of 1850
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Winfield Scott
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Mexican war hero
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Crime to assist runaway slaves
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Harriett Beecher Stowe
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Published Uncle Toms Cabin
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories on the basis of popular soverigntyn
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John Brown
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Abolitionist
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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Brutal murders of five pro-slavery men
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Republican Party
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Whigs and Democrats
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James Buchanan
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Democrat's nomination for President
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Lecompton Constitution
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Gave the voters of Kansas only the right to decide whether more slaves could enter the territory
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Dred Scott
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Slave held by John Emerson
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Roger B. Taney
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Wrote majority of the opinion against Dred Scott
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Dred Scott decision
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Enraged abolitionists
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Abraham Lincoln
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Ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate
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Stephen Douglas
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Opposer of Abraham Lincoln, ran against him
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Freeport Doctrine
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Helped Douglas defeat Lincoln in the Senate race
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John Bell
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Nomination for president
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John Breckenridge
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Nomination for Vice President
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Confederate States of America
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South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas
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Jefferson Davis
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Elected as provisional president of the Confederacy
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