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19 Cards in this Set
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What Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of the fugitive slave act in 1859?
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Ableman versus booth
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In the Ableman versus Booth Supreme Court case, who is Ableman and who is Booth?
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Able men was a slave hunter and both encourage people to free the slaves that he was hunting
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Who wrote uncle Tom's cabin and in what year?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852
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How many copies of uncle Tom's cabin were sold in a year and how many worldwide?
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300,000 sold in a year 2.5 million copies worldwide
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Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write uncle Tom's cabin?
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She lost her son Charlie and she felt for the slaves who lose their children through sale
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what was the most famous anti-Tom book?
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Aunt Phillis's cabin
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What was the main goal of the young America movement?
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Annexation of lands southward
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Young America became a group within what party?
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Democratic
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Who was one of the main leaders of the young America movement?
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Stephen Douglas
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What piece of land did the young America movement strive to take?
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Mexico
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What was the Ostend Manifesto of 1854?
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I desire to annex Cuba. Pres. Franklin Pierce offered Spain $130 million for Cuba
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What to events tore the country apart?
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Uncle Tom's cabin and the ostend manifesto
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Where and why was Matthew C Perry dispatched to?
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Japan. To open the ports to traders
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What event caused Japan to modernize?
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Matthew C Perry going to open the ports
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What was the foundation of Stephen Douglasses political ideology?
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Popular sovereignty and expansion
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Douglasses greediness made him believe in what?
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Rapid exploitation of the continent
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Who are the two nominees in the election of 1852?
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Winfield Scott for the whigs and Franklin Pierce for the Democrats
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What made Franklin Pierce a "doughface"?
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He was in northern man with southern principles
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What signifies the end of the whig party?
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The election of 1852
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