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Alamo
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The name given to an old, largely abandoned mission compund in San Antonio, Texas. It became the symbol of Texan independence when, in March 1836, Mexican president Santa Anna defeated a handful of defenders there and executed the survivors. Less than tow weeks later, Santa Anna massacred other Texas rebels at Goliad, but somehow they are not so well remembered.
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Fifty-four fourty or fight!
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A popular slogan in 1845, this referred to the northern boundary of the Oregon Country. If GB did not yeild the whole of Oregon, the US would go to war. Polk used this but ultimately persuaded British to divide Oregon at what is now the Canadian-American border.
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joint occupation
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Where British and US shared occupation of the Oregon Country and had equal rights and protection there. This agreement avoided an Anglo-American conflict.
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"Manifest Destiny"
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a phrase coined by Democratic party journalist John L. O'Sullivan in a newspaper article favoring the annexation of Texas in 1845.
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fire eaters
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young southern politicians of the 1850s for whom the defense of slavery and the denunciation of antislavery northerners was the heart of their politics...commonly they threatened secession for the Union when they believed slaver was threatened.
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Omnibus Bill
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Henry Clay's name for the bill he proposed that "included all" and required both side to make concessions.
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Came up with the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 to soothe sectional animosities but instead aggravated them
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Wilmot Proviso
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A rider attached to an army appropriations bill in 1846 (beginning of war with Mexico) stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any lands take from Mexico----this ended up attached to fifty bills by the house and each time was removed in the Senate but it did inspire the formation of the Free Soil Party
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Bleeding Kansas
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Antislvery northerners' political reference to the violence in Kansas Territory between free-state and slave-state settlers that began in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
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Border Ruffians
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name given by abolitionists and free soilers to western Missourians who regularly crossed the border into Kansas Territory to vote in territorial elections and bully free-state settlers.
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Freeport Doctrine
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Propounded by Stephen A Douglas in debate with Lincoln at Freeport, Il. Douglas argued that a territory could keep slave owners out by failing to enact laws protecting property rights in slaves.
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jayhawkers
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armed free-state irregulars in eastern kansas in the middle and late 1850s, the equivalent of the proslavery border ruffians from Missouri.
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John Brown's Raid
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seizure of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and convinced southerners that abolitionist (and the Republican party) threatened their personal safety.
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Know-nothing Party
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Derisive name for the American party of the 1850's, an anti-immigration and anti-Catholic movement that won control of several states between 1852 and 1854.
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Lecompton Constitution
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a proposed Kansas state constitution, making Kansas a slave state but it was demanded that it be ratified by a territorywide referendum
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Popular sovereignty
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rule by the majority of people (after 1854 it referred to the principle that settlers in Kansas, and other territories, would decided by majority vote on entering the Union as free or slave states.
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Slavocracy
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A word contrived by antislavery Republicans as an equivalent of democracy or aristocracy, meaning rule by the "slave power"
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