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What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850
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CA admitted as a free state, new fugitive slave law, Utah and NM territories decide about slavery (popular sovereignty), Texas NM boundary dispute resolved, Texas paid $10M by fed govt, sale of slaves banned in DC, fugitive slave act requires people in free states to help capture and return escaped slaves
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What role did Henry clay play in the compromise
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Created it defended it and begged north and south to consider it
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John c Calhoun role in compromise
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Presented southern case for slavery in the territories, believed strongly in states rights over federal power and held souths slaveholding interest above all
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Daniel Webster role in compromise
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Supported clay and urged north to compromise w south by passing stricter fugitive solve law warning southern forehands to think cautiously about secession
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Stephen Douglas role in compromise
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Took over pro compromise from clay and reintroduced each resolution individually to earn a majority vote and it oassed
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Wilmot proviso
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California and the territories of Utah and New Mexico would be closed to slavery forever
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N opinion on Wilmot proviso
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Supported
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S opinion on wilmot proviso
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Opposed and feared that if it became a law that the addition of new states to the union would shift power to the north in ckngress
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Did the wilmot proviso pass
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No
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Secession
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Formal withdrawal of a state from the union
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Why did south threaten secessuon
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Issues regarding California's statehood, Texas NM border disputes, and the abolition of slavery is the District of Columbia
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Who was Millard Fillmore
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President Taylor's successor who supported the compromise and embraced it as the final settlement of the question of slavery and sectional differences
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Know did northern states react to the fugitive slave act
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Passing personal liberty laws
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Who wrote uncle toms cabin
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Harriet Beecher stowe
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Who proposed the replacement for the Missouri compromise
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Stephen douglas
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What did Stephen Douglas suggest to replace the Missouri compeomise
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Kansas Nebraska act
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How did the Kansas Nebraska act propose to deal with the issue of slavery
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Nebraska in north and Kannada in south would both have popular sovereignty and repeal the Missouri compromise
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When was the Kansas Nebraska act passed
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1852
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Why did Douglas Believe the popular sovereignty would solve the problem slavery in the Nebraska territory
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He didn't think slavery could exist on fairies since no crops that rely on slave labor could be grown there but it would win over the south one state would be slave one would be free which would keep the balance
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I did popular sovereignty lead to bleeding Kansas instead of settling issues of slavery in the Nebraska territory
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Violence; two governments
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Jim brown
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Abolitionist who believed God called him to fight slavery He led the pottawatomie massacre which triggered other incidents throughout Kansas resulting in 200 deaths after these attacks Kansas earned the name bleeding Kansas
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What did free-soilers oppose and why
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Extension of slavery into the territories bc it took jobs from white workers
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What did know nothing's oppose and why
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Immigrants bc they were influenced by the pipe and could form a conspiracy to overthrow democracy
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What did supporters of the Republican Party have in common
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Opposed Kansas Nebraska act and the extension of slavery
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What made the Republican Party stekng
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Ability to draw support from diverse groups
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What did the election indicate about democrats
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They could win the presidency with a national candidate who could compete in the north without alienating southerners (took a northerner who could win votes in south)
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What did the election indicate about republicans
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They were a political force in the north
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Horace Greeley
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Outspoken newspaper editor who opposed slavery and was on of the founders of the republican party
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Franklin pierce
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Democratic candidate in the election of 1853 for president who won
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Henry clay was for ____
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Compromise
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Daniel Webster was for ___
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The union
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John c Calhoun was for ____
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Secessjon
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Was the compromise of 1850 passed
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Yes
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Which ores signed the compromise of 1850
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Millard Fillmore
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The fugitive slave act was part of what
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Compromise of 1850
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What did the fugitive slave act say about trial by jury
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No trial by jury could not testify on own behalf
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Federal commissioners received how much for figutives
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$10
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How much for freed people
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$5
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How many states passed personal liberty laws
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9
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What did personal liberty laws forbid
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Imprisonment of runaway slaves
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What was guaranteed
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Trial by jury
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Underground rr
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Street network to aid fugitive slaves in their escape
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Leaders of the underground rr
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Conductors
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Location of rr
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Stations
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Uncle Toms cabin
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Was an instant best seller about moral struggle of sksvery
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Douglas wanted the rr to go where
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From Chicago to San Francisco not through sohth
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What resulted from the Kansas Nebraska shirt
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Repealed Missouri compromise and establish popular sovereignty
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President Fillmore was what oarty
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Dem
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Lecompton v Topeka
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Peoppeople from slave state Missouri voted ill legally in favor of pro slavery candidates for this reason abolitionists organize arrival government in Topeka
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Sack of lawrence
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Anti-slavery town named Lawrence was created and a proslavery grand jury condemned its inhabitants as traders 800 armed men came to arrest inhabitants burn down anti-slavery headquarters destroyed printing presses and looted many houses in stores
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Pottawatomie massacre who
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John brown
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Pottawatomie massacre when
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May 24, 1856
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Result of Pottawatomie massacre
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Pulled five men from bed hacked out hands and stopped them
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Bleeding jamsas
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Violent battlefield in civil war
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Charles sumners speech name
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Crime against kansas
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Charles sumners speech date
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May 19, 1856
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Result of Message of charles
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Critisized proslavery colleagues verbally attacked people for their support of slavery
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Preston brooks reaction
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Accused libel beat Sumner an ad with Cain until it broke
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Results of Preston brooks reaction
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s praised n criticized it took summer 3 yrs to recover
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Whigs slavery
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Split
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American party believed in
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Nativism
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Nativeism
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Idea that native born Americans were preferred over immigrants
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Who do the American party especially dislike
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Catholics
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Know nothing
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American English
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Liberty party wanted to ----
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Abolish slavery through the new lawsuits
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Free soils opposed what
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Extension of slavery in the territories
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Republic opposed what
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Kansas Nebraska action in
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Election of 1856 republican
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John c frénont
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Election of 1856 democrat
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James nuchankn
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Election of 1836 amerixan
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Millard fillmore
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Who won 1867
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Buchanan
