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10 Cards in this Set
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Effects of Mexican War in relation to tension
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M.W. heightened opposing viewpoints and led to increasingly divisive sectionalism
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PARTY of James K. Polk
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Southern Democrat
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PERSONAL FACTS about James K. Polk
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Slaveholder
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THOUGHTS ABOUT SLAVERY MOVING WEST by James K. Polk
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"Abstract question"; No one would take enslaved African Americans to the Southwest because the dry climate would make plantation-style farming unprofitable
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David Wilmot
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Pennsylvanian Democrat
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Wilmot Proviso
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addition to war appropriations bill; proposed that any territory gained through the M.W. would have no "involuntary servitude" or slavery
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Lewis Cass
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Senator from Michigan; proposed popular sovereignty
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Popular Sovereignty
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belief that territories should be able to decide for themselves whether to be slave or free
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Whig Split
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Conscience Whigs opposed slavery and Taylor, Northerners; Cotton Whigs supported slavery where it existed and Taylor, Northerners
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Free-Soil Party
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Members of the Liberty Party, disgruntled Conscience Whigs, & annoyed Democrats who ran Van Buren for president in 1848 and supported slavery's confinement
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