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23 Cards in this Set
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John Brown |
failed raid of Harper's Ferry VA led Pottawatomie and killed pro-slave people matyr for N abolitionists |
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Winfield Scott |
led siege of MX City ran for president 1852 as a Whig |
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Steven Douglas |
pop sov N Dem KA NE Act Senator of Ill (beat Lincoln) ran for pres 1860 (lost) |
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Joseph Smith |
founded Mormon religion killed in Ill |
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Zachary Taylor |
whig candidate 1848 polk sent to enforce Rio Grande Border refused to sign Compromise of 1850 |
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Millard Fillmore |
American Party candidate 1856 Taylor's VP signs Compromise of 1850 |
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Martin Van Buren |
free soil candidate 1848 |
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John Fremont |
first rep. candidate in 1856 |
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Roger Taney |
Chief justice in Dred Scott Decision |
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Sam Houston |
defeats Santa Anna first president of Texas |
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who is the dark horse candidate |
James k Polk |
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What is the Wilmont Proviso |
proposed to band slavery in Mexican Cecession territory (not passed) didn't know what to do with texas |
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who were the free soilers |
new party created who was against the expansion of slavery free soil for free labor |
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what was the compromise of 1850 |
established N and W border of TX admitted CA into Union as free state Utah's government Fugitive Slave Law stop slave trade in DC |
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who made up the Republican Party |
N democrats, N Whigs, Free Soilers, and Abolitionists |
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What was the Know Nothing Party |
american party nativists anti-immigration anti-Catholic secretive |
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What was bleeding kansas |
violence in kansas in which pro-slave mobs attack anti-slave mobs over pop sov issue |
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What was the Lincoln Douglas Debates |
Lincoln wanting to become senator of Ill, had multiple debates with douglas concerning slavery, how to deal with it, and where it was allowed Lincoln won debates |
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What was John Brown's Raid |
John Brown thought god told him he would end slavery, raid harpers ferry va aerosol, gave slaves the guns, and an armed slave revolt occurred brown capture by robert e lee -- army killed and hung * 1st matter of civil war |
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What was ostend manifesto |
bring slavery to cuba |
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Who were fire eaters |
southerners who wanted to go to war |
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crittenden compromise |
slavery prohibited in new territory north of 36' 30' last ditch effort to stop civil war |
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who won in which election: '40, '44, '48, '52, '56, and '60 |
'40: WHH '44: Polk '48: Fillmore and Taylor '52: Pierce '56: Buchanan '60: Lincoln |
