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48 Cards in this Set
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Stephen Douglas
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He proposed that Popular Sovereignty be
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Winfield Scott
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He was the Whig Party candidate for president in 1852
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James Buchanan
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He won the election of 1856
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Abraham Lincoln
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Lost the 1858 election for Senator
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Buchanan,
Fillmore, and Fremont |
1856 presidential candidates
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The sack of Lawrence, Kansas
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Free-state town that was burned
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Bell,
Douglas, Breckinridge. and Lincoln |
the 4 presidential candidates in 1860
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A Kansas born, John Brown
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He led the raid on Harpers Ferry which upset the South
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Wilmot Proviso
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This tried to outlaw slavery but
never was passed or became a law |
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Dred Scott Decision
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Supreme Court said that Dred Scott was still a slave
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The North
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Lincoln has overwhelming support
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Discovery of Gold
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This led California of becoming a state
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Henry Clay
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The main person behind the Compromise of 1850
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Election of Lincoln
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made the Southern States start to leave the Union
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A book that most southerners hated
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John Crittenden
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His compromise was to hold the Union together
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Abraham Lincoln
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Won the 1860 election
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The Wilmot Proviso
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Dealt with slavery in the Mexican Cession
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States
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Rifles from the north
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Beecher Bibles
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Republican
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Political Party wanted to stop the spread of slavery
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Missouri
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proslavers called "Border Ruffians"
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The Fugitive Slave Act
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This act made it a crime to help escaped slaves
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Popular Sovereignty
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This was used in the 1850 of Compromise and in Kansas
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Harriett Beecher Stowe
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Author of Uncle Tom Cabin
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John Brown
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Led the raid on Harper's Ferry
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Bleeding Kansas
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Kansas nickname by killing the opposition
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Roger B. Taney
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case
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Preston Brooks
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He beat Charles Sumner his cane
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A book that showed the evils of slavery
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Secessionist
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Southerners wanting to leave the Union
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Abolitionist
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wanting to get rid of Slavery
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Stephen Douglas
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He beat Lincoln in 1858 election
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Popular Sovereignty
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Let the people decide if their state would be free or slave
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Republican
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Party that was against the spread of slavery into the territories
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California
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Main state that dealt with the Compromise of 1850
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The Dred Scott Decision
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This repealed (void) the Missouri Compromise
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Harper's Ferry
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The raid provided weapons for a slave rebellion
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Dred Scott
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A slave who had a Supreme Court Case named after him
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Charles Sumner
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He was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks
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John Brown
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Leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre
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Franklin Pierce
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1852 Democratic winner for president
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John Bell
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Constitutional Union candidate of 1860
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John C. Fremont
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Republican presidential candidate in 1856
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Roger B Taney
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Chief Justice in the Dred Scott Case
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Compromise of 1850
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Made California a free state
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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
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Proposed popular sovereignty to decide if the state was to be free or slave
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Election of 1852
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Pierce (a democrat) BEAT
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