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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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John Brown

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Extreme abolitionist, killed 5 people to avenge the Sack of Lawrence.Had a plan to inspire slaves to fight for freedom. Brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.The attack failed and John Brown was captured and hanged for murder and treason. Southerners were outraged by his actions, Northerners praised his deeds.

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Dred Scott

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Sued for his freedom in Supreme Court, ruled that he had no rights

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Abraham Lincoln

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Republican party’s new leader,against slavery, presidential candidate in 1860

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Stephen Douglas

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was in charge of winning passage of the bill as the Democratic presidential party “whip”.

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Charles Sumner

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gave an anti-slavery speech in Congress, packed with insults including making fun of senator from South Carolina

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Man in debate who was against nullification

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Webster

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Proposed a compromise tariff and ended crisis in 1833

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Henry Clay

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Idea that states can reject federal laws

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Nullification

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Indian who lead a group that won against US several times

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Osceola

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Nationalist turned sectionalist, Jackson’s VP

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Calhoun

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Parties use rumors and lies to attack each other

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Mudslinging

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Presidents give positions to those that support them

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Spoils system

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Removal Act 1830

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Gave Jackson right to negotiate resettlement treaties, gave state’s the right to make laws for their territory

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Jacksonian Democracy

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3rd parties- Federalists died out, smaller parties form
State and local- state and local officials are elected
Campaigning- presidential candidate have national campaigns run by party

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First 7 states that seceded

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South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida,Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Texas

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Crittenden Plan

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Last plan to prevent secession, wasn´t passed

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Abolition

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To remove slavery

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Popular sovereignty

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Allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories

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Biggest issue that divided north and south

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Slavery

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Compromise of 1850

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To appease the South, Congress will have no laws regarding slavery in any territory won from Mexico. And would pass a stronger law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Created Nebraska and Kansas territories, removed 36 30 line,Allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery within those territories

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Wilmot Proviso

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stated that slavery would be outlawed in any territory the United States might acquire from the War with Mexico.

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Free soil Party

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formed to stop the spread of slavery into the new territories

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Republican party

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was formed in reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Was created from the Northern Whigs, Free-Soilers and a few Northern Democrats who opposed slavery.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Made it illegal to assist or help runaway slaves.Suspected fugitive, or runaway, slaves could be held without a warrant. No right to a jury trial so many free blacks were captured and taken back to the South.

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Lincoln-Douglas Debate

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1858 Republican Abe Lincoln ran against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas for the Illinois US Senate seat.Lincoln believed slavery should not be expanded.Douglas (Little Giant) argued slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty.Douglas won the debate but Lincoln made a name for him and his new party.

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Bleeding Kansas

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Proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed into the Kansas Territory (1855).5000 proslavery Missourians voted illegally giving legislative power in Kansas to the proslavery group.Antislavery settlers boycotted and created their own government.A proslavery mob attacked and destroyed Lawrence Kansas, killing antislavery members and murdered 7 proslavery neighbors.

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Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown and several white and black men attacked a US Marine arsenal to capture weapons and supply a slave revolt.Southerners were outraged by his actions, Northerners praised his deeds.

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Correct order of events:
	Wilmot Proviso
	Secession of South Carolina
	Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln becomes president
	Free Soil Party
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Wilmot Proviso
Free Soil Party
Rupublican Party
Lincoln becomes president
South Carolina Secedes
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Founder of the first American colony in Texas

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Stephen Austin

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First president of the Republic of Texas

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Sam Houston

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Leader of Mormon church after Joseph Smith died

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Brigham Young

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Opened Santa Fe Trail

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William Henderson

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Treaty that ended war with Mexico

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Battle where Texas won its independence

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San Jacinto

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Religious group that settled in Utah

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Mormon

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Belief that US was destined to expand from sea to sea

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Manifest Destiny

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Land bought for $10 million from Mexico for transcontinental railroad

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Gadsden Purchase

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3 results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico

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Texas became part of US
Rio Grande border
US pays Mexico $15 million

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Push factors of immigration

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Religious and political turmoil, population growth, crop failure, Industrial Revolution, Agricultural changes

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Pull factors of immigration

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Abundant land, economic opportunity, Freedom

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Wrote the first detective story

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Wrote Moby Dick

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Herman Melville

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Founder of Hudson River School

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Asher Durand

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Wrote about simple life at Walden Pond

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Henry David Thoreau

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Group with goal of restricting immigrants influence

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Nativist

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Person who leaves a country

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Emigrant

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Person who enters a country

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Immigrant

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Belief that people find the truth within themselves

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Transcedentalist

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Henry Clay

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Created the plan to settle the California problem. Great Compromiser.

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Leader of opportunities for the blind

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Samuel G Howe

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Leader of opportunities for deaf

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Thomas H Gallaudet

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Leader of education

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Horace Mann

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Leader of asylums and prisons

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Dorothea Dix

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Printed abolitionist pamphlet and appealed to colored citizens of the world

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David Walker

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Published Liberator, calling for abolition

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William Garrison

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