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15 Cards in this Set
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Getting Rid of Slavery |
Abolitionist movement in north Growing cause of tension Between n + s |
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Missouri compromise J Madison |
Missouri slave state Maine free state 36/30 parallel - free states above, slave states below |
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Protective Tariff of 1828 Jackson |
Placed on imported goods to boost American made goods Hated by south Tariff of abominations South threatened to secede unless its removed |
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Daniel Webster |
Opposed Jackson Established us/Canadian border Founded Whig party |
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Wilmont Proviso |
Proposed law to prevent slavery in Mexican Cession- didn't pass, Caused greater tension |
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Free Soil Party |
Political party founded to keep slavery out of new western territories in US |
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Compromise of 1850 |
California becomes slave state (free?) rest of MC decided by vote Enacts fugitive slave law |
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Uncle toms cabin |
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about slavery. Trigger for war. "So you're the lady who started the war."-Abraham Lincoln |
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Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 |
K & N become territories. Kansas slavery by vote- "Bleeding Kansas" Kansas is free state Nebraska state after Civil War |
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Free soil Political Party |
Established as anti slavery party Merges in Republican Party |
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Dred Scott v Sandford |
Scott's master took him to free state and moved back to south. Filled a lawsuit for freedom Lost case BC he was living 36/30 and was property not a citizen |
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Lincoln Douglas Debates |
Heated debates for Illinois Senate seat. Famously dramatic and helped Lincoln gain fame to run for president |
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Harper's Ferry |
John Brown (abolitionist) was caught and hanged trying to steal weapons from federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry |
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president by 40% of vote South felt unrepresented Civil War begins 5 months after election |
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Confederate States of America |
Separate country formed by southern states who broke away from us fought against union in civil war (1961-1865) |
