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19 Cards in this Set
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Wilmot Proviso
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a document stating that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory
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sectionalism
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favoring the interest of one section or region over the interest of the entire country
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How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?
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in the territory of the Mexican Cession popular sovereignty would decide on slavery
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Why did members of the Free-Soil Party support the abolition of slavery?
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they worried that slave labor would mean fewer jobs for white workers.
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What was included in the Compromise of 1850
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California would enter as a free state, rest of the Mexican cession would be federal land, Texas would give up land to the east of the upper Rio Grande gov’t would pay Texas’s debts from when it was an independent republic, the slave trade would end in Washington, D.C., a more effectice fugitive slave law would be passed.`
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Why was the case of Anthony Burns significant
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It persuaded many to join the abolitionists cause.
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What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery
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wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Introduced in 1854, what did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
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it would divide the remainder of the Louisiana purchase into two territories - Kansas and Nebraska - and allow the people in each territory to decide of the question of slavery by popular so
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What contributed to the Sack of Lawrence
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the two different legislatures that claimed to run Kansas
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On the night of May 24, 1856, five pro-slavery men were killed in Kansas. What is this event called?
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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What political party formed in 1854 made up of supporters from various other parties?
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Republicans
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Who was being rescued from jail when abolitionists in Boston killed a marshal1?
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Anthony Burns
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Who attacked a senator in Congress with his cane?
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Preston Brooks
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secession.
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-Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interest of the entire country.
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Freeport Doctrine
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the notion that the police would enforce the voters’ decision in the Dred Scott case`
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Stephen Douglas
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Had supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.
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Jefferson Davis
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Delegates from seceded states elected Davis of Mississippi as president of the Confederacy.
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Fugitive Slave Act
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made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
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Free-Soil Party-
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Antislavery northerners formed a new party, the Free-Soil Party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso.
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