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13 Cards in this Set
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New England Emigrant Aid Company |
Organization created to facilitate the migration of free laborers to Kansas in order to prevent the establishment of slavery in that territory |
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Lecompton Constitution |
Proposed Kansas Constitution, whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory |
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Bleeding Kansas |
Civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory, fought intermittently until 1861, when it merged with the wider National Civil War |
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Fred Scott v. Standford |
Supreme Court decision that extended federal protection to slavery by ruling that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory |
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Panic of 1857 |
Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, overspeculation, and excess grain production |
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Tariff of 1857 |
Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers |
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Lincoln-Douglas debates |
Series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the U.S. Senate race in Illinois |
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Freeport question |
"Should the Court or the people decide the future of slavery in the territories?" |
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Freeport Doctorine |
Declared that since slavery could not exist without laws to protect it, territorial legislatures, not the Supreme Court, would have the final say on the slavery question |
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Harpers Ferry |
Federal arsenal in Virginia seized by abolitionist John Brown in 1859 |
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Constitutional Union party |
Forms by moderate Whigs and Know-Nothings in an effort to elect a compromise candidate and avert a sectional crisis |
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Confederate States of America |
Government established after seven Southern states seceded from the Union |
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Crittenden amendments |
Proposed in an attempt to appease the South, the failed Constitutional amendments would have given federal protection for slavery in all territories south of 36°30' where slavery was supported by popular sovereignty |