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| a popular vote on an issue |
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| another word for rebellion |
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| proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act |
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| can be defined as taking states out of the union |
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| was a famous Western explorer nicknamed "The Pathfinder" |
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| federal arsenal that was seized in order to obtain weapons |
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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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| Senator who delivered a speech accusing pro-slavery senators of forcing Kansas into the ranks of slave states |
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| fervent abolitionist who opposed slavery and incited slaves to rebel against slaveholders |
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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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| transported runaway's in secret, giving them food and shelter along the way as they saw them to freedom |
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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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| proposed that in any territory the United States gained from Mexico "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist |
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| this slave sued his slaveholder for his freedom but the Supreme Court ruled against him |
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| became the first battle ground between those favoring the extension of slavery and those opposing it |
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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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| 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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| armed Missourians who swarmed across the border to vote illegally in Kansas |
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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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| 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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| 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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| was an informal but well-organized network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons in the North |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| name given to over 80,000 people who arrived in California hoping to make their fortunes mining gold |
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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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| 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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