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10 Cards in this Set
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1812 |
Special Government officials can arrest any accused runaway. No trial to prove it just a slaveholder or white witness to swear they were the masters property. Northerners need to help if it is needed. |
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Wilmot Priviso |
Proposed a ban on slavery on all of the new territory from the Mexican American war. - Passed in the house of representatives - Failed in the senate |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Everybody gets to vote If their slave is going to be a slave state or not.
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Secede |
Southerners were afraid it would tip the balance of power. Many threatened to secede. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
It showed how bad slavery can be Uncle Tom and Silmon Legree. Bestseller in the north made slavery a human problem not political. |
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Preston Brooks |
Butlers nephew came in and beat Sumner bloody with a cane. He never fully healed from his injuries in his life.
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Lewis Cass |
A democrat senator who argued for slavery to be decided by a vote by each state.
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Martin Van Buren |
The first free soil party candidate for president.
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
Stephen Douglas 2 new territories -Kansas and Nebraska - both have to be free per the Missouri compromise. Slavery should be based on a vote. -South was happy and north was mad. |
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Henry Clay |
He came up with compromise of 1850. |
