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"Bleeding Kansas"

Clash between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas

The Wilmont Proviso

Proposed a ban on slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico

The Compromise of 1850

Clay organized a collection of provisions to avoid disunion

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Allowed popular sovereignty in territories west of Iowa and Missouri

Gag rule

Rule against the introduction of any petitions regarding slavery in the House of Representatives

Sectionilism

The tendency of people in different parts of the country to have different views

Ostend Manifesto

United States interest in buying Cuba

Popular Sovereignty

The idea that settlers in a territory could decide the slavery issue for themselves

Discovery of gold in CA in 1848

Heightened the debate over slavery in the territories

Kansas and Nebraska territories

Created because of the transcontinental railroad

James Buchanan

President after Franklin Pierce

John Brown

Led a raid against the Harpers Ferry arsenal

John C. Calhoun

Senator from SC who defended slavery

Henry Clay

A Congressman and Senator from KY

Stephen Douglas

Senator from Illinois who debated Lincoln

Millard Fillmore

President after Zachary Taylor

John C. Fremont

Republican presidential candidate in 1856

Dred Scott

Slave who lost a Supreme Court decision

Charles Summer

Made a vicious speech against slave interest

Daniel Webster

Senator from Massachusetts and a gifted orator