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Lewis Cass

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U.S. Senator, veteran of war of 1812, father of popular sovereignty

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popular sovereignty

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notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery

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Zachary Taylor

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12th President of the United States

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Free Soil Party

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Antislavery party in the 1842 ans 1852 elections that opposes the extension of slavery into the territories

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California Gold Rush

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Inflow of thousands of miners to Northern California after news reports of the discovery of gold

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Underground Railroad

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Informal network of volunteers that helped runaway slaves escape from the South and reach Canada

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Harriet Tubman

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Conductor on Underground Railroad who rescued over 300 slaves

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Seventh of March Speech

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Adress urging the North to support the Compromise of 1850

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Millard Fillmore

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13th President of the United States

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Compromise of 1850

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Admitted CA as a free state, opened NM and UT to popular sovereignty, ended the slave trade, and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law

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Fugitive Slave Law

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Set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways

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Franklin Pierce

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14th President of the United States

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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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Provided that the U.S. and Great Britain would jointly protect the neutrality of Central America and that neither power would seek to fortify or control any future isthmian waterway

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William Walker

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American adventurer who installed himself as president in Nicaragua and legalized slavery

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Ostend Manifesto

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Secret administration proposal to purchase or take militarily Cuba from Spain

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Opium War

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War between Britain and China over trading rights, particularly Britain’s desire to continue selling opium to Chinese traders

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Treaty of Wanghia

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Assured the U.S. the same trading concessions granted to other powers

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Matthew C. Perry

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Commodore who helped form friendly relations with Japan

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Treaty of Kanagawa

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Established American comsulate in Japan and secured American coaling rights in Japanese ports

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Gadsden Purchase

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Acquired additional land from Mexico for $10 million

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty in slavery

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