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What was the Wilmot Proviso?
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David Wilmot's idea that slavery and involuntary srvitude whould not exist in the U.S.
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The south hated this idea.
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What was sectionalism?
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A devotion to the interests of one region instead of to the country as a whole.
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This occured during the Civil war.
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What was popular sovereignty?
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The idea that the citizens of a state should vote on whether their state would be a slave state or not.
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Citizens get to vote on this.
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What was the Free Soil Party?
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A political group that strongly believed that the Wilmont Proviso should be carried out.
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A political group-not crazy people.
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Slavery in California
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The postition of slavery in California was greatly debated.
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Has to do with position.
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What was the Compromise of 1850?
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The 5 promises that Henry Clay made to the United States.
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Pres. of 1850
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Henry Clay's 5 Ideas were....
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-Urged Congress to admit CA as a state in the Union.
-Ordered the rest of the Mexican Cession to be and organized territory -Fixed the dispute between TX and NM territory -Called for an end to the slave trade (not slavery) -Called for more effective slave fugitive laws |
Five ideas
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John C. Calhoun was.....
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Strongly supported Southern views
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Not his personality.
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