12/3/15 Flashcards

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Zachary Taylor

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A general and then a president seen as a hero

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Wilmot proviso

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all land squired from the Mex-America war is free land

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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

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Treaty that sold Mexican Texas, Cali, Arizona, and New Mexico to the us for 15 million.

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Free soil movement

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The abolitionist fight to decide whether or not California and the other won land is free or not.

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Frederick Douglas

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Black Abolitionist.

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Gold Rush

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The sudden influx of people wanting gold and and rushing to get it from the west.

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John Sutter

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The first one to start the Cali gold rush

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The Forty-Niners

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The group of people who went to San Francisco in order to get gold. Also, a football team.

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Sectionalism

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The difference between the north south and west America.

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Stephen Douglas

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Designer of the Kansas-Nebraska act

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Popular Sovereignty

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People of a state get to vote whether or not it is free.

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Millard Filmore

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President during crisis of 1850 and last president of Whig party.

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Daniel Webster

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Was involved in a whole lot of politics and proposed many great things.

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Comprimise of 1850

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California is a free state, no more slave trade in do, harsher fugitive slave act, and popular sovereignty.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A woman abolitionist who wrote uncle tom’s cabin.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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An abolitionist book that effected many Americans.

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James Buchanan

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A failed president.

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Franklin Pierce

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Expansionist president who came in while the Whigs were crumbling due to slavery.

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Gadsden Purchase

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Bought land now in Arizona and New Mexico in order to harbor a transcontinental railroad.

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Ostend Manifesto

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G.et Cuba!

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Kansas Nebraska act

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Made each free and slave in order to balance the number of votes.

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Republican Party

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.the party that was replaced by, and replaced the Whigs.

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Know-nothing party

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WASP lovers

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Bleeding Kansas

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Abolitionists and pro-slavers fight.

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John Brown

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Abolitionist who believed that slavery can only be solved by a fight.

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Dred Scott vs Stanford

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Controversial ruling of dread being a slave or not.

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Mexican American war

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War against Mexico after the defeat of the Alamo.