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13 Cards in this Set
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Who proposed to prohibit slavery to expand into newly acqured Mexican Territories?
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Wilmot Proviso
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What treaty established a border between US and Mexico as Rio Grande River?
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Treay of Quadalupe-Hidalgo
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What person from the whig party was elected president in 1848?
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Zachary Taylor
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What were Zackary Taylor's political beliefs?
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opposed secession and supported admission of California as a free state
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In what year did California apply for admission into the union as a free state?
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1850
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Who is known as the "Great Compromiser"?
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Henry Clay
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Fugitive Slave Law
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allowed slave owners to pursue runaway slaves into northern territories and states
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Who established the underground railroad?
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Harriot Tubman
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After the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, what as the only option left?
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Escaping into Canada
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Popular sovereignty
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majority rule
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who supported the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and why?
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abolitionists in the north, it depicted the "evils of slavery" in the south by overseers and plantation owners
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Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854?
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Senator Lewis Cass (Michigan)
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