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Chapters 17-19 Flashcards

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1
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Tariff of 1842

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Signed by Pres. Tyler under peer pressure

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Caroline

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American steamer carrying weapons to Canadian rebels sunk in New York by Brits

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3
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Creole

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Britain offers asylum to escaped slaves on the ship the Creole

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Aroostook War

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lumber jack war at the Maine/Canada border

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Manifest Destiny

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Ideology to expand west

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Fifty-four forty or fight

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Americans want all of Oregon, or a fight

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Liberty party

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small anti-slavery party in New York

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Walker Tariff

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reduced the tariff from 32% to 25%, Pres Polk

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spot resolutions

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Lincoln’s case for saying the disputed zone in Texas was, “spotty”

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10
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California Bear Flag Republic

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John C. Fremont’s small rebellion to overthrow beaners

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11
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Buena Vista

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Zachary Taylor’s spot

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12
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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treaty that gave America Texas and California

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13
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“Conscience Whigs”

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antislavery whigs who also opposed Mexican war

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14
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Wilmot Proviso

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states that slavery should not be extended to any territories ceeded from Mexico

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15
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John Tyler

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President that replaced William Henry Harrison

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16
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James K Polk

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Democratic nominee, 4 point plan

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17
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Stephen W. Kearny

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helped with the conquest of California

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18
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John C. Fremont

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Helped to conquer fort in California, later republican candidate

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19
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Winfield Scott

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general and Whig Candidate for 1852

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20
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David Wilmot

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tried to pass Wilmot Proviso

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21
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popular sovereignty

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made by Lewis Cass, allows states to choose for themselves

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22
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Free Soil party

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anti slavery, federal aid for internal improvements and homesteads

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23
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California gold rush

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tens of thousands of people rush to California for the prospect of gold

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24
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Underground Railroad

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system of houses that allowed slaves to escape

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Seventh of March Speech

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Speech by Webster urging compromise and union

26
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Compromise of 1850

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made by Clay, made temporary compromise

27
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Fugitive Slave law

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slaves cannot testify, no right to trial

28
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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states that America and Britain had no right to a water way

29
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Ostend Manifresto

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USA tells Spain to sell Cuba, or to have it take from them

30
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Opium War

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Britain’s war to gain trading rights to China

31
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Treaty of Wanghia

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Cushing uses charm to gain trading rights to China

32
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Treaty of Kanagawa

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established relations with Japan

33
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Gadsden Purchase

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Mexico seceedes a small part of land so America can builld rails

34
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Lewis Cass

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created idea of popular sovereignty

35
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Zachary Taylor

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Mexican War general, and future Pres

36
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Harriet Tubman

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lead slaves to freedom

37
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Millard Filmore

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breifly the president after Zachary Taylor’s death

38
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Caleb Cushing

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Chinese diplomat, charming

39
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matthew c. perry

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japanese diplomat, flashy

40
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Beecher Stowe write of the horrors of slavery

41
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The Impending Crisis of the South

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talks of how it’s in the best financial interest of non-slace holders to become abolitionists

42
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New England Emigrant Aid Company

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Kansas pioneers financed by abolitionists

43
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Lecompton Constitution

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kansas constitution forced that favored slavery

44
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Bleeding Kansas

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Preston Brooks attacks Sumner

45
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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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decrees that slaves are private property, and can therefor be taken from any territory. Also nullifies Compromise

46
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panic of 1857

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Cali gold, russian grain, speculation of rails and land

47
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Tariff of 1857

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reuduced tariffs 20% on dutiable goods

48
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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Honest Abe vs. Bullhorn Douglas for Illinois Senate

49
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Freeport Question

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ask whether slavery is about Congress or the people

50
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Freeport Doctrine

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argued people will get rid of slavery, if they don’t want it

51
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Harpers Ferry

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where John Brown seizes federal arsenal

52
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Constitutional Union Party

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Union, consitution, law

53
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Confederate States of America

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made in Montgomery, lead by Jefferson Davis

54
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Crittenden amendments

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proposed compromise by John Crittenden, new lines for compromise

55
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

56
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James Buchanan

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Democrat who tears party apart

57
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Charles Sumner

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beaten by Preston S. Brooks

58
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Dred Scott

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Black slave who sews

59
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Roger B. Taney

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Chief justice who charges against Dred Scott

60
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Stephen A. Douglas

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Lincoln’s competition for the Illinois senate

61
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John C. Breckinridge

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southern democrat’s representative

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