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30 Cards in this Set
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The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
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Seceded
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This term means a person that wants to do away with slavery
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Abolistionist
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This term means slaves as pieces of property
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Chattle
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This idea was developed by Stephen Douglass and states the people in the states should vote to decide if they want slavery or not
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Popular Soventy
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A loose alliance of states that act together on matters of mutual concern
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Confederacy
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He was a famous Senator from s.C. and said the South would secede if they couldn't have slavery
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John C. Couhon
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This Illinois man ran against Lincoln for the Illinois senate seat and won!
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Little Giant/Steven Douglass
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this famous senator and dorator from Mass. wroked to push through the compromise of 1850
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Daniel Webster
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he had such nicknames as Honest Abe & "Rail-Splitter" and was the first Republican elected to office since J.Q. Adams
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Abe Lincoln
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This Ken. Politician was nicknamed the great compromiser for saving the Union several times including the Compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay
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In 1846 this Penn. Dem Congressman added a provison to a pill calling for the exclusion of slavery from territory gained from the Mex. War
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David Wilmot
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He ran an anti-slavery press in Ill. and was one of the first people killed by proslavery people because of his views
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Eleigh Lovejoy
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Pres. lincoln called her the "Little Woman" that started the Civil War because of her book, Uncle Tom's cabin
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Herriet Stowe
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He believed he was God's agent on earth and dedicated his life to destroying slavery, he was hanged at Harper's Ferry for treason
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John Brown
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This political party redeveloped in 1854 as a reaction to the Democrats & slavery issues. It's a formation helped to bring on the war
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Republican
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This Radical Republican Senator slandered the South and Sen. Butler in a speech before Congress called the Crime Against Kansas
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Charles Sumner
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This Young Congressman from S.C. took a cane and beat a Sen. Senseless because that man had dishonored his family
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Preston Brooks
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This was the name given to the fight in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery forces
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Bleeding Kansas
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The South threatened to secede from the union if this republican candidate won, they even refused to have his name on the ballot
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Abe Lincoln
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This presidential canidate predicted that there would be a war over slavery in his "house divided speech"
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Abe Lincoln
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This man invented the cotton gin, thus causing a raid expansion of slavery into the Deep South
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Eli Witney
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This runaway slave nicknamed "little moses" had a reward on her head becasue ashe was a conducter on the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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This famous Supreme Court case in 1857 further defined the status of slavery and made it a permanent insitution
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Dred Scott
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This runaway slave who worked to buy his freedom was a gifted writer & orator, wrote Slave Narratives and was an Abolitionist
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Fredrick Douglass
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This author and newspaper editor was known as the "golden trumpet" of abolitionist oratory
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Wendell Phillips
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This deal made in 1820 said the ME could enter the Union asd a free state and MO could not enter as a slave state. No slavery abolve 36 30
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Missouri Compromise
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This act was introduced in congress in Jan. 1854 by Stephen Douglass and said people in the terr. should vote to decide if they want slavery
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Kansas/Nabraska act
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This act was passed in Congress and said that it was illegal to help a runaway slave and if caught doing so a person could be fined and imprisoned
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Fudgetive Slave Law
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This political party developed in 1854 as a reaction to the growing numbers of immigrants and Catholics entering the country
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Know-Nothings
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This compromise came about when California requested admission as a free state in violation of the Missour Compromise
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Compromise of 1850
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