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Leader of the "Lane Rebels" who wrote the powerful antislavery work American Slavery As It Is.

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Theodore Dwight Weld

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Black abolitionist writer who called for a bloody end to slavery in an appeal of 1829.

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David Walker

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Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery throught political action.

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Frederick Douglass

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West African republic founded in 1822 by freed blacks from the United States.

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Liberia

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Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him a abolitionist martyr.

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Elijah Lovejoy

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Former president who fought for the right to discuss slavery in Congress.

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John Quncy Adams

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Black abolitionist who visited West Africa in 1859 to examine sites where African-Americans might relocate.

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Martin Delany

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English novelist whose romantic medevilism encouraged the semifeudal ideals of the southern planter aristocracy.

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Sir Walter Scott

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Author of an abolitionist novel that portrayed the separation of slave families by auction.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the South.

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Nat Turner

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Wealthy New York abolitionist merchant whose home was demolished by a mob in 1834.

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Lewis Tappan

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Leader elected vice president on the Whig ticket who spent most of his presidency in bitter feuds with his fellow Whigs.

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John Tyler

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Northwestern territory in dispute between Britain and United States, subject of "Manifest Destiny" rhetoric in 1844.

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Oregon

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Dark-horse presidential winner in 1844 who effectively carried out ambitious expansionist campaign plans.

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James K. Polk

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Congressional author of resolution forbiding slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.

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David Wilmont

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American military hero who invaded northern Mexico from Texas in 1846-1847.

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Zachary Taylor

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Independent nation that was the object of british, Mexican, and French scheming in the early 1840s.

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Texas

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Mexican military leader who failde to stop humiliating American invasion of his country.

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Santa Annna

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Clash between Canadians and Americans over disputed timber country.

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Aroostook War

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Dashing explorer/adventurer who led the overthrow of Mexican rule in California after war broke out.

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John C. Freemont

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Claimed by United States as southern boundary of Texas.

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Rio Grande

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Whig leader and secretary who negotiated an end to maine boundary dispute in 1842.

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Daniel Webster

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Long-winded American dipomat who negotiated the Treaty of uadalupe Hidalgo.

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Nicholas Trist

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Leader of Senate Whigs and unsuccessful presidential candidate against Polk in 1844.

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Henry Clay

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"Old Fuss and Feathers," whose conquest of Mexico City brought U.S. victory in the Mexican War.

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Winfield Scott

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Congressional author of the "spot resolutions" criticizing the Mexican War.

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Abraham Lincoln

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cquired from Mexico in 1848 and admitted as a free state in 1850 without having been a territory.

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California

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Northern spokesman whose support for the Compromise of 1850 earned him the hatred of abolitionists.

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Daniel Webster

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Organized as territories under the Compromise of 1850, with their decision about slavery left up to popular sovereignty.

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Utah and New Mexico

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New York senator who argued that the expansion of slavery was forbidden by a ''higher law''.

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William Seward

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Organized as territories under Douglas's controversial law of 1845 that left theie decision on slavery up to popular sovereignty.

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Kansas and Nebraska

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Place where the slave trade was ended by the Compromise of 1850.

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District of Columbia

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Rich Spanish colony coveted by American proslavery expansionists in the 1850's.

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Cuba

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Whig president who nearly destroyed the Compromise of 1850 before he died in office.

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Zachary Taylor

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Military hero of the Mexican War who became the Whig's last presidential candidate in 1852.

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Winfield Scott

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Central American nation desired by proslavery expansionistsin the 1850s .

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Nicaragua

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llinois politician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 but then reignited it in 1854.

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Famous ''conductor'' on the Underground Railroad who rescued more than three hundred slaves from bondage .

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Harriet Tubman

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Weak Democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionist schemes.

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Franklin Pierce

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Democratic presidential candidate in 1848, orginal proponent of the idea of ''popular sovereignty''.

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Lewis Cass

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American naval commander who opened Japan to the West in 1854.

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Matthew Perry

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Southern congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred.

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Preston Brooks

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Leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victum to the conflict over slavery.

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Black slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy.

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Dred Scott

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"The little woman who wrote the book that made this grate war" (the Civil War).

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion.

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Hinton R. Helper

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Scene of militant abolitionist John Brown's massacre of proslavery men in 1856.

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Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

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Site where seven seceding states united to declare their states independence from the United States.

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Montgomery, Alabama

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Romantic western hero and the first Republican candidate for president.

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John C. Fremont

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Abolitionists senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assult that severely injured him.

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Charles Summe

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Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860.

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John C. Breckenridge

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Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion.

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Hinton R. Helper

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Scene of militant abolitionist John Brown's massacre of proslavery men in 1856.

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Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

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Site where seven seceding states united to declare their states independence from the United States.

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Montgomery, Alabama

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Romantic western hero and the first Republican candidate for president.

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John C. Fremont

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Abolitionists senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assult that severely injured him.

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Charles Summe

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Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860.

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John C. Breckenridge

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Southern-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion.

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Hinton R. Helper

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Scene of militant abolitionist John Brown's massacre of proslavery men in 1856.

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Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

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Site where seven seceding states united to declare their states independence from the United States.

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Montgomery, Alabama

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Romantic western hero and the first Republican candidate for president.

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John C. Fremont

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Abolitionists senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assult that severely injured him.

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Charles Summe

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Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860.

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John C. Breckenridge