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27 Cards in this Set
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popular sovereignty |
allowed voters in a territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or allow slavery |
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sectionalsm |
loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. |
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fugitive slave act |
made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves |
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crittenden compromise |
protecting the institution of slavery through constitutional amendments |
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constitutional union party |
political party in the US in 1860 |
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free-soil party |
supporters of the wilmot proviso |
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republican party |
political unrest led Whigs, some democrats, free-soldiers, and abolitionist join and form |
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freeport doctrine |
when slavery could be excluded from territories in the US |
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Pottawatomie massacre |
killed 5 pro slavery men |
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secession |
the act of formally withdrawing from a union |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
wrote a powerful anti slaver novel |
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john brown |
planned a raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers ferry Virginia also hoped to get weapons and give to slaves |
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Jefferson Davis |
American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi |
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Stephen Douglas |
supported building a railroad to the pacific |
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"Bleeding Kansas" |
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress". |
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Frederick Douglas |
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. |
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Dred Scott |
a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves |
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Compromise of 1850 |
a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–48) |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
divide the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories |
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Franklin Pierce |
politician from New Hampshire |
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Roger Taney |
5th chief justice of the supreme court |
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Henry Clay |
a towering figure in American politics in the middle part of the 19th century, a presidential aspirant whose political skills earned him the nickname "The Great Compromiser." |
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Lewis Cass |
american military officer |
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Martin Van Buren |
american politician, also 8th president |
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David Wilmot |
elected to the US congress |
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John Bell |
American politician, attorney, and planter |