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| Proposed that in any territory the U.S. gained from Mexico slavery should not exist |
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| Citizens of each new territory should vote whether or not they want slavery |
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| Removal of states from the Union |
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| Northeners who opposed Slavery |
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| Liberty Party opposed slavery in western territories |
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| Admission of Kansas as a slave state |
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| Anti-immigrant and Anti-Catholic Party |
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| Opposed the future expansion of slavery |
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| Slave who was freed by his master |
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| Former Tennessee Senator and Constitutional Union Party Candidate |
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| Former Mississippi Senator and Confederacy president. |
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| Military takes control of an area and suspends certain civil rights. |
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| Extending the Missouri Compromise to the California border. |
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| Southern Suceeded states of the Union |
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| To make Kansas and Nebraska Slave States |
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| Antislavery newspaper serial made into a book |
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| Well Organized system of trafficking slaves to free states |
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| Unintended consequence of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| Conductor of the Underground Railroad |
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| Sectional disagreements disappeared when settlers left their old homes and headed west into new territories |
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| In spring of 1855, thousands of armed Missourians voted illegally in Kansas, helping to elect a pro-slavery legislature |
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| By persisting with his bill to open the northern Great Plains to settlement, Stephen A. Douglas inadvertently set the country on the road to Civil War |
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| Bleeding Nebraska became the scene of a territorial civil war between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers |
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| Levi Coffin allowed escaped African Americans to stay at his home in Indiana, where three Underground Railroad routes from the South converged |
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| The Confederate Constitution stated each state was independent but must gurantee the gradual end to slavery in the Confederate Territory |
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| Though Republican leaders quickly denounced the actions of John Brown's raid the key point to many Southeners was that the Republicans and John Brown both opposed slavery |
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| The Confederate congress moved the capital of the Confederacy to South Carolina |
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| Debate over slavery in western territory tore apart the Republican Party |
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| President Lincoln's call for troops after the fall of Fort Sumter created crisis among southeners who faced with the prospect of civil war believed they had no choice but to suceed |
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| Candidates from three parties campaigned for president in 1848: Lewis Cass for the Democrats, Martin Van Buren for the Free Soil Party, and Zachary Taylor for the _____. |
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| Congress, bitterly divided along sectional lines, had not been able to agree on whether to allow slavery in __________ and New Mexico before president Taylor took office. |
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| By the end of 1849, over 80,000 "______________" had arrived in California hoping to make their fortunes |
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| With the encouragement of President Taylor, California applied in December of ________ for admission to the Union as a free state. |
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| Senator Daniel ______________ called on the Senate to put national unity above sectional loyalties and voiced his support of Henry Clay's plan to solve the crisis |
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| In 1859 John ________ developed a plan to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today in West Virginia), free and arm the enslaved people of the neighborhood, and begin an insurrection against slave holders. |
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| The _______ Court said in the Dred Scott ruling that the federal government could not prohibit slavery in the territories |
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| The settlers in Kansas voted overwhelmingly in 1858 to __________ the Lecompton constitution because they did not want slavery in their state. |
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| The _______, who officially organized their party in 1854, did not agree on whether slavery should be abolished in the Southern states, but they did agree that it had to be kept out of the territories. |
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| When the votes were counted in the election of 1856, James Buchanan had won and a showdown between the _________ and South was postponed for another few years |
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| The discovery of gold brought thousands of residents to where? |
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| Slavery's expansion split to country not along party lines but along what? |
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| The Northern Whigs who supported Zachary Taylor and voted with the Southern Whigs to nominate him were called what? |
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| If California entered the Union as a free state what was the main fear of the slave holding states? |
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| The balance of slave and free states |
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| Who was the senator that opposed popular sovereignty? |
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| What was the land called that was purchased from Mexico that today is part of southern Arizona and New Mexico? |
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| The first battleground between Antislavery and Proslavery was? |
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| The West Coast is connected to the rest of America by? |
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| The Transcontinental Railroad |
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| What is the Fugitive Slave Act? |
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| Slaves aren't allowed to leave their masters or be aided in escape. |
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| What Senator and fiery abolitionist delivered a speech in 1856 that accused pro-slavery senators of forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states |
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| In 1858 the Illinois Republican nominee for the Senate was? |
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| Why did the Kansas Nebraska Act enrage many people who opposed the extension of slavery? |
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| Because the Act extends slavery |
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| What was the Dredd Scott Decision? |
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| Made free soil unconstitutional |
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| What did James Buchanan feel was the best way to save the union? |
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| To make concessions to the South |
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| Stephen Douglas's idea that kept slavery outside of states by refusing to pass laws to regulate or enforce slavery? |
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| Congress tried to find a compromise to save the Union as Southern states began to ______ from the Union. |
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| President Lincoln's decleration that the Union would hold on to federal property in the Southern states clearly reffered to what? |
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| The Emancipation Proclomation |
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| Sothern Democratic convention nominated who? |
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| What was the first state to Succeed? |
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| Republicans convinced their first choice William Seward might not have wide appeal in the north the party nominated who? |
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