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30 Cards in this Set
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Lewis Cass
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Michigan senator
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popular sovereignty
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the vote if new territories have slavery or not
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David Wilmot
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introduced Wilmot Proviso
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Wilmot Proviso
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banned slavery in all lands that would be aquired from Mexico
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Zach Taylor
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Mexican War General
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Free-Soil party
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party formed of Whigs and Democrats
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Henry Clay
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proposed Clay's proposal
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Daniel Webster
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veteran Whig leader
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fire-eaters
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group of southern political leaders that were for slavery.
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John C. Calhoun
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South's elder statesmen and a leading fire eater
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Millard Fillmore
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favored Clay's proposal
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Compromise of 1850
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pass of Clay's compromise
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Franklin Pierce
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supporter of the Compromise of 1850
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Winfield Scott
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a different Mexican War hero
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Fugitive Slave Act
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made it a federal crime to harbor escaped slaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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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Crittenden Compromise
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called for the Missouri Compromise line through the rest of the western territories.
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Robert E. Lee
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skillful Confederate military leader.
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Joseph E. Johnston
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Led the Manassas attacks
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First Battle of Bull Run
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fighting in Manassas, also called the Battle of Manassas.
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Confederate general that stopped the Union's assault.
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Anaconda Plan
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designed to squeeze the life out of the South.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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wrote a diary that provides a glimpse of life on the home front during the war.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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first women to become a professionally licensed doctor.
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U.S. Sanitary Commission
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battled deseases and infections that killed twice as many soldiers.
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