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23 Cards in this Set
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popular sovereignty |
the idea that the people living in a state or territory should decide for themselves weather or not to allow slavery |
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compromise of 1850 |
would resolve several disputed between north and south. It also called for the admission of California as a free state and provided for the enforcement of the fugitive slave law |
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fugitive slave law |
laws requiring states to return runaway slaves to the south |
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what became an issue after the Mexican war in 1848? |
slavery |
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what idea was supported by senator cass to solve the issue of slavery? |
popular sovereignty |
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How did the Free Soil Party affect the election of 1848? |
it split the democrat vote causing Zachary Taylor to win |
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Who proposed the compromise of 1850? |
Henry Clay |
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Name two of the provisions the compromise of 1850 called for |
1) enforcement of fugitive slave law 2) admission of California as a free state |
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Who became president when Zachary Taylor died? |
Millard Fillmore |
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who signed the compromise of 1850? |
Millard Fillmore |
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what was the Underground Railroad? |
a series of secret routes leading north (to freedom) |
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Who was Harriet Tubman? |
an escaped slave from Maryland, led 300 slaves to freedom in the 1850s |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 |
the act would create two new territories 1) Kansas 2) Nebraska |
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Republican Party |
Northern Whigs and Democrats who opposed the extension of slavery to Kansas met in Wisconsin and Michigan in 1854 |
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Dread Scott Decision |
ruling which increased tension between North and South |
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Explain how uncle toms cabin moved the nation |
it explained how hard slavery life was |
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who wrote uncle toms cabin? |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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What court decision in 1857 increased tension between the North and South? |
Dread Scott Decision |
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what was the ruling? (Dread Scott Decision) |
1) a slave was not a citizen and could not sue in the courts 2) a slave was the property of his owner and that congress had no authority to deprive a citizen of his property |
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What did it mean for the Missouri Compromise to be Unconstitutional? |
meant a slave owner could now take his slave to any part of the United States |
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Who was John Brown? |
an abolitionist who had already stirred up trouble in Kansas, led a band of 18 men into Harper's Ferry |
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Harper's Ferry |
a sleepy town nestled in the Virginia mountains |
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who was the first republican President of the United States? |
Abraham Lincoln |
