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27 Cards in this Set
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I am from Kentucky and a senator. I helped maneuvered the MIssouri Compromise though the senate.
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HENRY CLAY
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I am a democrat from Tennessee and i wanted to acquire Texas from New Mexico where slavery already existed. I wanted the republic of texas to become a state.
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JAMES POLK
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I am a senator from South Carolina who believed that neither Congress nor any territiorial government had the authority to ban slavery from a territory or regulate it such as the Wilmot Proviso
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Jonhn C Calhoun
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I was chosen by a new polotical party the whigs to be their presidential candidate in the 1848 elexction. I am also a hero of the mexican warz
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Zachary Taylor
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I am a former prresident and i left the whig party because it did not take a stand on slavery. My new party was called the free soil party
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Martin Van Bureu
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I am a fervent abolitionist who believed god had chosen me to end slavery. I led some of my sons and other men where we seized and killed spporters of slavery
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JOhn Brown
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I am an abolitionist senator from massachusetts where i stook a strong stand againt slavery. I strongly criticized proslavery senator ANDREW P BUTLER Two days later, representative preston brook beat me with a cane
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Charles sumner
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I am an enslaved african american from missouri. I was taken to illinois and wisconsin which are free territiories and i lived as a free man. we went bak to missouri a slave state. I sued for my freedom and the us supreme court ruled that i had to resume my status as a slave
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Dred scott
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I am the cheif justice of the supreme court i ruled that dred scott was property and not human. As pproperty he was not a critizen of the US therefore no citizens had no right to bring a lawsuit. Also my sympathies lie towards the southern states and slavery.
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Roger B taney
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I was a candidate for the senate in illinois in 1856 i was to challenge the current senator STEPHEN A DOUGLAS. at this time i was an unkown person
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abrahaman lincoln
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I elected to the president of the confederacy. i was a senator from mississippi
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jefferson davis
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the theory southerners used to jusitfy secession-the rights of the state overrule the rights of the federal governemnt
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states rights
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penn democrat who becam president in 1856 by winning the support of all the southern states exceot maryland
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james buchanan
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the plan that specified slavery should b prohibited in any lands that might b acquired from mexico
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wilmot proviso
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introduced by henry clay, this solved the dilema of upsetting the balance in the senate with the admission of missouri as a slave state
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missouri compromise
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main topic of lincoln douglas debates
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slavery
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the state that was the senter of the national attention in the congressional election of 1858
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illinois
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proposed by stephen a douglas it lets the people in new territories decide about slavery
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popular sovereinghty
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the supreme court decision that divided the nation over slavery even more
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dred scott case
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the annexation of this state was the main issue in the 1844 election
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texas
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the 1860 republican presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most southern states
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abraham lincoln
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an act that states a person can b fined up to 1000 or b imprisoned for nt returning runaway slaves further angering the north
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fugitive slave act
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henry clays plan
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compromise of 1850
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stephen a douglas stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws
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free port doctrine
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political party that endorsed the wilmot proviso
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free soil
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the new hampshire democrat who supported the fugitive slave act and became president in 1853
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franklin pierce
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the first state to shed blood in a civil war over slavery
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kansas
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