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20 Cards in this Set
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Henry Clay |
"the great Compromiser", he proposed and passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and then the Compromise of 1850 |
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David Wilmot |
proposed a law to ban slavery in territories won from Mexico( did not pass) |
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Martin Van Buren |
free soil party candidate in 1848, got 10% of teh vote |
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Zachary Taylor |
Elected president in 1848, hero from the Mexican American war |
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Thomas Benton Hart |
Supported California joining the Union as a free state, threatened in the Senate with a pistol by Henry Foote |
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John C. Calhoun |
Senator from South Carolina - demanded the fugitive slave law, was dying of tuberculosis so he could not speak |
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Daniel Webster |
Senator from Massachusetts who hated slavery. Accepted the Fugitive Slave Law to keep the Union together |
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Stephen Douglas |
took up the fight to pass the Compromise of 1850 for Henry Clay, debated Abraham Lincoln for Senate and ran for president in 1860- proposed the KS/NE act and supported popular sovereignty |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, wrote about the evils of slavery |
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John Brown |
Moved to Kansas to make it a free territory, abolitionists who killed 5 people at Pottawatomie Creek. led a raid a Harper's Ferry, VA |
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Charles Sumner |
leading abolitionist who was beat unconscious in the senate with a cane by Preston Brooks |
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Preston Brooks |
pro slavery senator who beat Sumner unconscious with a cane
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Dred Scott |
enslaved in Missouri, but lived in a free territory with his owner; went to the Supreme Court for his freedom when his owner died |
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Frederick Douglas |
escaped slave, abolitionist, spoke out against the Dred Scott decision |
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James Buchanan |
a Democrat from Pennsylvania who won the election of 1856 with support from both the north and south |
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John C. Fremont |
A Republican candidate in 1856 who recieved 33% of the vote |
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Millard Fillmore |
know nothing party candidate in 1856- supported the Union and feared that a Republican party would split the nation apart |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Ran for Senate in 1858 against Stephen Douglas, against the KS/NE act- wanted to stop the spread of slavery into the west |
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Robert E. Lee |
led the troops to Harper's Ferry that killed 10 men and captured John Brown |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Won the Election of 1860 for the Republican Party, his name was not on the ballot in 10 southern states, South Carolina will secede from the union |
