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| Radical abolitionist that used violence to protest against slavery |
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| Secretary of state under 3 presidents and advocated the abolishment of slavery. Whig Party. |
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| United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson that advocated the abolishment of slavery. Republican Party. |
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| Leader of Senate that advocated the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act that both involved slavery |
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| Female abolitionist that published Uncle Tom's Cabin which was a book that explained life for Black slaves |
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| Democratic president 1857-1861 under whom the South seceeded from the Union |
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| American leader of the Radical Republican party under the Civil War and the Reconstruction period |
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| Supreme Court Justice that finalized the Dred Scott decision sayingthat all imported african slaves were not protected under the Constitution |
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| President of the Confederacy during it's existence (1861-1864) |
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| John Brown's army raid as a protest to abolish slavery |
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| John Brown's army raid as a protest to abolish slavery |
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| disallowed slavery in all american territories that were gained from mexico |
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| belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people |
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| economic party that was opposed to allowing slavery in the new western territories |
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| A bill that contains the laws of multiple controversial topics |
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| Omnibus bill containing 5 bills that quieted the conflict between the North and South for the 4 following years |
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| Act part of the Compromise of 1850 that forced all runaway slaves to be broguht back to their masters if found |
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| Book written by female abolitionist that explained the brutal lives of african-american slaves |
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| created the territories Kansas and Nebraska and allowed the state itself to decide whether it was a slave or free state |
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| Know-Nothing Party/American Party |
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| semi- secret party that had a great fear the the country was being overrun by foreign immigrants |
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| American party during the civil war that wanted to abolish slavery (mainly North) |
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| War between citizens of Kansas that took place in the new Kansas territory over whether it should become a slave or free state |
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| Charles Sumner stood up as a leader against the Fugitive Slave act and, because he did so, he was beaten senseless |
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| resolution to the Dred Scott vs Sanford case that said no black slave from africa was protected under the constitution |
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| financial panic in the United States caused from the declining international economy and overexpansion of the domestic economy |
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| the 2nd of 4 constitutions produced by Kansas that was pro abolition |
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| Several debates between lincoln (republican) and douglass (democrat) that all pertained to slavery |
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| The idea created in the 2nd Lincoln-Douglass debate by Douglass that popular sovereignty could overrun the Supreme court ruling in the Dred Scott Decision |
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| Confederate States of America |
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| Southern states that seceeded from the union to become their own country causing the American Civil War |
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| failed compromise proposed by Kentucky to solve the secession crisis |
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| Extreme southern politicians that were pro slavery and persuaded the southern states to seceed from the Union |
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| The crisis caused in America after the secessioon of the Southern states (1860)that preceeded the Civil War (1861) |
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