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13 Cards in this Set
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Popular Sovereignty |
Notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery |
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Free Soil party |
Anti-slavery party in the 1848 and 1852 elections that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, arguing that the presence of slavery would limit opportunities for free laborers |
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Underground Railroad |
Informal network of volunteers that helped runaway slaves escape from the South and reach free-soil Canada |
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California gold rush |
Inflow of miners to Northern California after news reports of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in January of 1848 had spread around the world by the end of that year |
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Seventh of March speech |
Daniel Webster's impassioned address urging the North to support the Compromise of 1850 |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Admitted California as a free state, open New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington DC, and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law |
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Fugitive Slave Law |
Passed as a part of the compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways |
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Clayton-Buwler Treaty |
Signed by Great Britain and the United States, it provided that the two nations would jointly protect the neutrality of Central America and that neither power would seek to fortify or exclusively control any future isthmian waterway |
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Ostend Manifesto |
Secret Franklin Pierce administration proposal to purchase or, that failing to wrest military Cuba from Spain |
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Opium War |
War between Britain and China over trading rights, particularly Britain's desire to continue selling opium to Chinese traders |
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Treaty of Wanghia |
Signed by the United States and China, it assured the United States the same trading concessions granted to other powers, greatly expanding America's trade with the Chinese |
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Gadsden Purchase |
Acquired additional land from Mexico for $10 million to facilitate the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Proposed that the issue of slavery be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, thus revoking the 1820 Missouri Compromise |
