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26 Cards in this Set
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Wilmot Proviso |
designed to eliminate slavery within land acquired as a result of Mexican War |
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Sen. John C. Calhoun |
pro-slavery |
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Popular Sovereighty |
citizens of each territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not |
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Conscience Whigs |
anti-slavery, northern, opposed Zachary Taylor |
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Secession |
action of withdrawal from Union |
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Sen. Henry Clay |
outlawed slaves trade in Colombia but not slavery itself |
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Sen. Daniel Webster |
supported Clays plan |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin/ Harriet Beecher Stowe |
anti-slavery book telling stories of realistic people in black slaves and their life as slaves |
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Harriet Tubman |
biggest person for the underground railroad |
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Levi Coffin |
anti-slavery, leader of the underground railroad, "President of the under ground raileoad" |
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Gadsden Purchase |
Santa Anna gave 30,000 square miles of Mexican territory for $10 million |
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Sen. David Atchison |
pro-slavery |
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"Border Ruffians" |
pro-slavery, crossed border into kansas |
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Charles Sumner |
anti-slavery |
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Rep. Preston Brooks |
pro-slavery, beat Sumner up for giving speech about pro-slaveey senators |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
allows people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on whether to allow slavery or not, repealed the Missouri Compromise |
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Republican Party |
anti-slavery |
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American Party ( Know-Nothings) |
opposed immigration and catholics |
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John C. Frémont |
anti-slavery, Republican Party, 1st Canidate |
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Chief Justice Roger B Taney |
pro-slavery |
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Lecompton Constitution |
permitted slavery, excluded free blacks from living in Kansas, allowed only male citizens to vote |
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John Brown |
anti-slavery, began an insurrection |
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insurrection |
rebellion against slaveholders |
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John Bell |
neutral on slavery |
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Abraham Lincoln |
anti-slavery |
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Jefferson Davis |
pro-slavery |
