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42 Cards in this Set
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What is the nickname if of the proslavery people of the South?
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Fire-eaters
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Who were the people that were afraid of new states becoming slave states?
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Free Soilers
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Who had views of popular sovernty?
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Cass
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Idea that people of a territory should vote for making their state for or against slavery and outcome would be decided by majority vote.
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Popular Sovernty
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The Whig Canidate in 1848?
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Taylor
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Nicknamed the "Hero of Buena Vista"
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Taylor
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Claimed that everything gained from Mexico was free soil.(against slavery)
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Wilmot Proviso
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Who did the Free-Soiler nominated as their canidate for president?
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Van Buren
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Why did Free-Soilers not like slavery?
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They thought it took away jobs from the poor white men, not allowing them to move up in the social ranking
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The only party that addressed the slavery issue. (the other two avioded the topic)
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The Free-Soilers
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Where was gold discovered in early 1848?
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Sutter's Mill, California
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Who became rich off of the gold rush?
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Saloon and Bar owners. People with businesses that were making money off of the gold panners.
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Why was the crime rate so high in California?
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Gold miners did not have enough money to support themselves so took up robbery
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California became a slave state or a free state?
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Free state
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With the addition of California where was the power of the House and Senate
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House: North
Senate: Equal |
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Why would D.C. be in a bad position if it became free soil?
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It was surrounded by slave state Maryland and Virgina
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Name of the system that helped black escape to the North.
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Underground Railroad
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One of the conductors of the Underground Railroad that made 19 trips into the South
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Harriet Tubman
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What did the fugitive slave law demand?
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That if a runaway was discovered in the North, people were to take them back to the South.
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Why didn't the fugitive slave law become heavily inforced?
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Not that many slaves were escaping each year (1,000 a year) and since it didn't effect Northerners that much they didn't feel the need to send slaves back.
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How did many slaves gain freedom?
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By self-purchase or voluntary emancipation
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Why did southerners meet in Nashville, Tennessee in 1849?
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To talk about secession
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Who were the "immortal trio" of the south that was responsible for many southern reforms and proposals?
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Clay, Calhoun, and Webster
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Who was nicknamed the "Great Compromiser?"
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Clay
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Nickname of Senator Stephen A. Douglas
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Little Giant
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Nickname of Calhoun
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Great Nullifier
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Who gave the Seventh of March Speech that turned the tide of the North toward compromise?
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Webster
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A New Yorker that was a spokesmen for the younger northern radicals
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William H. Seward
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Who argued that Christian legistalors must obey God's moral laws as well as man's mundane law?
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Seward
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Vetoed all comprimises passed by Congress and hung traitors.
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Taylor
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Who took over for Taylor when he died?
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Fillmore
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What occured after the talks of sucession died down and the South but condemed comprimise measures of Congress?
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The Second Era of Good Feelings
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Who got the better deal of the Compromise of 1850?
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the North
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Why did the North have the better deal of the compromise of 1850?
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California was kept as a free state giving more power to the North. At this point the South is looking for more slaves state and is attempting to hurry along the statehood of New Mexico and Utah
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What was the Bill that denied escaped slaves the right to a trial by jury? (it also paided judges more when the slave was proven guilty over innocent)
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the Bloodhound Bill
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Who did the Democrats nominate for the 1852 election?
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Frannk Pierce
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Who wanted territorial expansion?
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the North
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Who was nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers?"
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Winfield Scott
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Who did the Whigs nominate and why?
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Scott becasue of his military background and the only canidates that won from the Whig party had a strong military background
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Who was the Free-Soilers canidate and how did he hurt the Whigs?
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John P. Hale and he hurt the Whigs by taking away votes that would have benefited the Whig party
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What did the treaty of 1848 between the U.S. and New Granada (later Colombia) state?
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Treat states the the U.S. will maintain "perfect neutrality" and that the American's kept the right of transit across the isthmus
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Where is the first transcontinental railroad?
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The Panama Canal
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