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20 Cards in this Set
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Wilmot Proviso
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prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
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Calhoun Resolutions
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stated slavery could not be banned until a territory became a state
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popular sovereignty
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the idea that citizens should decide the status of slavery
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free soilers
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those who favored leaving slavery alone in the South where it already existed
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Free Soil Party
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"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men"
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California Gold rush
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1849
attracted men to move to California |
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forty niners
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gold hunters
California Gold Rush |
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Compromise of 1850
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proposed by Henry Clay to settle issue of slavery in new territories (California, New Mexico)
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Fugitive Slave Law
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the return of runaway slaves to bondage
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Underground Railroad
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escape route for fugitive slaves
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Fire eaters
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extremists who advocated the South's leaving the Union as the only way to preserve the Southern way of life
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Stephen A. Douglas
proposed allowing states to decide issue of slavery repealed ban on slavery above 36 degree 30' line |
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Know Nothings
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political party that claimed ignorance when asked about their ideology
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Republican party
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"anti-slavery" party
appropriated pro-business nationalistic ideas of the Whigs non-existent in the South |
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"Bleeding Kansas"
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name for area where fighting broke out between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansas
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sack of Lawrence
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when ruffians burned, looted, and destroyed Lawrence Kansas
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Brooks-Sumner episode
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Rep. Preston Brooks attacked Sen. Charles Sumner in Congress over comments made by Sumner
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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led by John Brown
May 24-25, 1856 Brown and his men butchered five men as reaction to other violence |
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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platform for Illinois election; national debate on slavery
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Harpers Ferry
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Virginia
1859 attack on US arsenal led by John Brown |
