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56 Cards in this Set
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John Tyler nicknames
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His Accidency
Executive ass "Tyler grippe" |
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Whig Slogan...changed by Democrats to...
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"Harrison, Two Dollars a Day and Roast Beef"
"Ten Cents a Day and Bean Soup" |
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War of Words with England
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"Third War with England"
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southern cries for texas
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"Texas or Disunion"
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James K. Polk nicknames
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dark-horse
"Young Hickory" |
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Democrats about Oregon territory (Manifest Destiny)
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"All of Oregon or None"
"Fifty-four forty or fight" |
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Mexican War name
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"Jimmy Polk's War"
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Abraham Lincoln nickname
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"spotty Lincoln"
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"The act of sending an armed force among the Mexicans was unnecessary....it was unconstitutional, because the power of levying war is vested in Congress, and not the president."
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Abraham Lincoln, after Polk in the Mexican War
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General Zachary Taylor nicknames
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"Hero of Buena Vista"
"Old Rough and Ready" "Old Zack" |
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General Winfield Scott nickname
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"Old Fuss and Feathers"
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antislavery Whigs in Congress
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"Mexican Whigs"
"Conscience Whigs" |
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Names for the US
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"Colossus of the North"
"Bullies of the North" |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about new territory
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"Mexico will poison us"
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John C. Calhoun quote
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"Mexico is to us the forbidden fruit...the penalty of eating it would be to subject our institutions to political death"
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Free soil party ideas
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*against slavery
*advocated internal improvements *urged free government homesteads for settlers *tariffs *appealed to industrialists, Democrats, northerners, "Conscience Whigs" *under Van Buren |
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Free soilers shouted
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"Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men"
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Zachary Taylor said this during Battle of Buena Vista
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"General Taylor never surrenders"
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California "49ers" singing
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"O Susannah"
"Gold! Gold! Gold!" |
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Emerson quote about california
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"If a man is going to california, he announces it with hesitation, because it is a confession that he has failed at home"
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Harriet Tubman nickname
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Moses
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Henry Clay nickname
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The Great Compromiser
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Stephen A. Douglas nickname
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The Little Giant
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John Calhoun nickname
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The Great Nullifier
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Calhoun before he died
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"The South! The South! What will become of her!"
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Lewis Cass
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father of Popular Sovereignty
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Daniel Webster quote (slavery)
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"Let us not be pygmies in a case that calls for men"
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William Seward
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"Higher Law" Seward
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Bloodhound Bill
Man- Stealing Law |
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William Lloyd Garrison quote about the Fugitive Slave Law
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"We execrate it, we spit upon it, we trample it under our feet"
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Franklin Pierce nickname
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Fainting General
The Young Hickory of the Granite Hills |
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William Walker nickname
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"grey-eyed man of destiny"
now offers Nicaragua to you and your slaves, at a time when you have not a friend on the face of the earth" |
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Nicaragua's coastline
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Mosquito Coast
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Georgia Whigs
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finality men
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Ostend Manifesto
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manifesto of brigands
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camels
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ships of the desert
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Emerson (fugitive slave law, K/N A)
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"The Fugitive Slave Law did much to unglue the eyes of men, and now the Nebraska Bill leaves us staring"
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Charles Sumner (KNA)
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"at once the worst and best Bill on which Congress ever acted"
worst: victory for slave power best: "annuls all past compromises with slavery, and makes all future compromises impossible. thus is puts freedom and slavery face to face and bids them to grapple" |
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Republican party nickname
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"nigger stealing, stinking, putrid, abolition party
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Lincoln (to Beecher Stowe)
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"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war"
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John Brown nicknames
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Old Brown
God's Angry Man Osawatomie Brown "Saint John" |
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James Buchanan nickname
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Old Buck
Old Fogy |
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John C. Fremont
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Pathfinder of the West
Black Republican |
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causes of the panic of 1857
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*california gold --> inflation
*overstimulated growth of grain *speculation of land and railroads |
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Abraham Lincoln nuggets
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Honest Abe
Old Abe Woodchopper of the West Little Giant Killer rail splitter |
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John Brown's last words
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this IS a beautiful country
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Constitutional Union party nicknames
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"Do Nothing"
"Old Gentleman's" "The union, the constitution, the enforcement of laws" |
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Lincoln (crittenden amendment)
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"would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego"
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why secessionists left
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*alarmed by tipping political balance
*triumph of republican party *free soil criticism *abolitionist nagging *northern interference |
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Jefferson Davis (on secession)
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All we ask is to be left alone
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Lincoln (on secession)
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"Physically speaking, we cannot separate"
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Lincoln (about slavery and war)
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if i could save the union without freeing any slave, i would do it; and if i could save it by freeing all the slaves, i would do it; and if i could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, i would also do that"
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Thomas J Jackson nickname
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Stonewall
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"One war at a time"
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Lincoln
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"Did Secretary of War Edvin Stanton say i was a damned fool? Then i dare say i must be one, for stanton is generally right and he always says what he means"
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Lincoln
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the Civil war was called
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a rich man's war but a poor man's fight
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