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15 Cards in this Set
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Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty is best defined as...
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The people's ability to vote
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Free-Soilers
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Came before the Republicans, didn't want the expansion of slavery
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California gold rush resulted in...
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-people were getting rich, but it was a rare occurrence
-caused California to be rushed into statehood |
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The Underground Railroad is best defined as
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An escape route for slaves
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Components of the Compromise of 1850
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-California is a free state
-Fugitive slave law -Popular Sovereignty -southern territories |
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Why did the North hate the Fugitive slave laws?
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It put the North at the front lines of slavery, which they werent used to, since they normally ignored it.
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska act heighten sectional tensions between the North and the South?
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It split the Democratic party and caused emergence of the Republicans. Also let the people choose, which meant that the slaves had a chance to lose slavery.
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"Seventh of March Speech"
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-country can't split without war
-there's no such thing as peaceful secession |
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Lecompton Constitution
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Was considered a sly maneuver because Kansas was still a slave state.
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Preston Brooks's claim to fame?
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Beating Senator Sumner
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Where did Know-Nothings' name come from?
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Their secrecy as a whole
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Dred Scott Case:
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-slaves are property, and you can bring property everywhere, so what happens to slave and free States?
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Lincoln-Douglas debates' significance
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Spoke about the major issues with the United States
- can't have slave and free States, automatically separates the country |
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John Brown best served the antislavery case by...
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Dieing because he originally made the abolitionists seem bloodthirsty
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Election of 1860, Lincoln...
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-won North and west
-wasn't on ballots in the south -couldn't touch slavery |
