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13 Cards in this Set
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Stephen Douglas
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U.S. Senator from Illinois sponsor of Compromise of 1850 & Nebraska-Kansas Act and advised popular sovereigny.
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Winfield Scott
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Unsuccessful candidate of 1852. OLD FUSS AND FEATHERS.
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John C. Calhoun
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the great nullifier!
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Daniel Webster
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U.S. Senator from Mass. Secured northern votes fro compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay
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U.S. Senator from Kentucky... the "great compromiser".
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Popular Sovereignty
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allowed people of terriortity to choose if they were enslaved or free.
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Filibustering
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engaging in private military action in a foriegn country
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fugitive slave act
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part of compromise of 1850, required state officials to return slaves back
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Personal Liberty Laws
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State laws that denied loyal jails federal officials
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Compromise of 1850
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congressinal legislation allowed calif to enter union as a free state
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ostend manifesto
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secret document writen in Ostend, Belgium describing a plan a acquire Cuba from Spain
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kansas-nebraska act
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created kansas and nebraska and opened new lands for settlement. bill designed to organize to use popular soverignty
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gasden purchase
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strip land purchased from mexico in 1843 for purpose of building railroad to pacific
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