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CHAPTER 6 SEC 1 AND 2
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11/04/2012

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referendum
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a popular vote on an issue
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insurrection
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another word for rebellion
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Stephen Douglas
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proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act
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secession
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can be defined as taking states out of the union
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John C. Fremont
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was a famous Western explorer nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
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Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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federal arsenal that was seized in order to obtain weapons
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Kansas-Nebrraska Act
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this proposal divided the region into two territories; with Nebraska as a free state and Kansas as a slave state
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Charles Sumner
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Senator who delivered a speech accusing pro-slavery senators of forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states
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John Brown
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fervent abolitionist who opposed slavery and incited slaves to rebel against slaveholders
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Freeport Doctrine
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stated that people could still keep out slavery by refusing to pass the laws needed to regulate and enforce it
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conductors
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transported runaway's in secret, giving them food and shelter along the way as they saw them to freedom
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popular sovereignty
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the idea that the citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not
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Wilmot Proviso
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proposed that in any territory the United States gained from Mexico "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist
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Dred Scott
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this slave sued his slaveholder for his freedom but the Supreme Court ruled against him
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"Bleeding Kansas"
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became the first battle ground between those favoring the extension of slavery and those opposing it
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Free-Soil Party
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members of this political party opposed the spread of slavery onto the "free soil" of the western territories
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Henry Clay
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was nicknamed "The Great Compromiser because of his role in promoting the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and solving the nullification crisis in 1833
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"border ruffians"
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armed Missourians who swarmed across the border to vote illegally in Kansas
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Harriet Tubman
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Underground Railroad activist and slave, who risked journeys into the slave states to bring out men, women, and children to freedom
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Transcontinental Railroad
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would promote the growth in the territories as well as reduce the journey time as it passed across the whole country
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Levi Coffin
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was a Quaker who sheltered some 2,000 escaped African American in his home in Indiana, where three Underground Railroad routes converged
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Fugitive Slave Act
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under this act, a slaveholder or slave-catcher had only to point out the alleged runaways to take them into custody
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Underground Railroad
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was an informal but well-organized network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons in the North
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Abraham Lincoln
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this future president debated Stephen Douglas and established a national reputation for himself as a clear, thinker who could argue with force and eloquence
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first pair of resolutions
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suggested by Henry Clay in an attempt to avoid secession would allow California to come in as a free state but organize the rest of the territory from Mexico without any restrictions on slavery
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second pair of resolutions
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proposed by Henry Clay consisted of settling a boundary dispute between New Mexico and Texas, and compensate Texas by having the federal government take on it's debts
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third pair of resolutions
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outlawed the slave trade in the District of Columbia but no slavery itself
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final resolutions
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would prohibit Congress from interfering with the domestic slave trade as well as pass a stronger law to help Southerners recover slaves who fled north
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log cabin presidents
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Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, and James Garfield were the only five presidents to be born in a log cabin
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Gadsden Purchase
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In 1853 the United States paid Mexico $10 million for a 30,000 square-mile strip of land that is today part of Southern Arizona and New Mexico
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forty-niners
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name given to over 80,000 people who arrived in California hoping to make their fortunes mining gold
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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this book aroused passionate antislavery sentiment by presenting a depiction of the enslaved hero, Tom and the villanous overseer
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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this book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and is considered by many historians to be one of the caused of the civil war
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