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31 Cards in this Set
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John brown |
an abolitionist who attempted a slave revolt. broke into a federal Amorie and gave slaves weapons. he was hung in the Harper's ferry |
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James buchannan |
15 president. only president from pa |
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Henry clay |
was a representative for the west |
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Stephen douglas |
democratic senator. believed in popular sovereignty to decide the slavery conflict |
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John c Fremont |
republican who's popularity in the 1856 election made southerners afraid their political power was declining |
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Fredrick douglass |
spoke out against the dred Scott decisions |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
wrote the liberator, which was an abolitionist paper. he condemned the constitution as being a pro-slavery |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Served in Illionious state legislature and in congress he gained attention for his speeches against slavery |
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Franklin Peirce |
was the 14 president of the us. he was a northern democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation |
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Dred Scott |
He was a fugitive slave who sued for his freedom |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
she wrote a book on slavery which stirred up anti slavery reaction in the north. southerners said it created false images in people's head |
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sojourner truth |
female pioneer who was born into slavery in New York; was an advocate for abolishing slavery and women's riggts |
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nat turner |
Was a slave/preAcher who believed God called upon him to free the slaves. he started and unorganized slave revolt and was killed. this led for harsher punishments for all slaves |
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Bleeding Kansas |
A time of violence in the Kansas territory |
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Fugitive slave act |
preserving the union was the last important thing |
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King cotton |
slogan summarizing the strategies used during the American civil war by the confederacy to show that secession was feasible and there was no need to fear a war by the United states |
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popular sovereignty |
the concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government |
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the liberater |
A paper written by William Garrison that was about antislavery. he condemned the constitution to be a prowl avert document |
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republican party |
one of two major American political parties. it emerged in the 1850's as an anti slavery party and consisted of former northern Whigs and antislavery democrats. |
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segregation |
practice of restricting people to certain areas of residence or to separate imstitutions and facilities on the basis of race |
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sectionalism |
loyalty to our region(country) |
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states rights |
the rights of states to limit the power of the federal government |
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Missouri compromise |
1820 compromise of the admission of Missouri into the United States. admitted Missouri as a slave state and main as free state |
1820 compromise of the admission of Missouri into the United States. admitted Missouri as a slave state and main as free state |
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Wilmont Proviso |
Proposed ban on all slavery in any lands gained in Mexican war |
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Free soil party |
political party formed by antislavery northerners opposed to the spread of slavery In the west |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Admitted California as a free state and let the states decide if they wanted slavery, overturning the Missouri compromise |
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Kansas Nebraska act |
Allowed settlers in the Kansas and Nevbraska territories to vote in the issue of slavery, repealed the Missouri compromise |
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abolitionism |
a movement to end slavery |
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uncle toms cabin |
A novel by Harriet bleacher Stowe about a man named Tim and his cruel master Simon Legree. Helped make people more anti slavery |
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Underground railroad |
a secret network ran by people who helped men, women, and children escape from slaveryy |
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Dred Scott decison |
The Supreme Court said that dred Scott, an African American, wasn't free even though he lived in the north. it also said African Americans weren't citizens and that the government couldn't limit where slavery was Allowed |
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