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Chapter Ten American History Flashcards

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Great Compromiser

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Henry Clay

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2
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Slave who sued for his freedom

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Dred Scott

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Led the raid at Harper’s Ferry

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John Brown

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Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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5
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Candidate for President for the Know Nothing Party

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Millard Fillmore

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Elected President in 1856

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James Buchanon

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7
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Elected President in 1860

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Abraham Lincoln

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Senator who was beaten up in the Senate chambers

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Sen. Charles Sumner

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9
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Conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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10
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Freeport Doctrine

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Stephen Douglas

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11
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President of the Confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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12
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Wrote the Compromise of 1850

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Henry Clay

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13
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Presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union Party

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John Bell

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14
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Led the Pottawatomie Massacre

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John Brown

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15
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His court case nullified the MO Compromise

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Dred Scott

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16
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Proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act

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Stephen Douglas

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17
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Little Giant

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Stephen Douglas

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18
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Honest Abe

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Abraham Lincoln

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Senator from Massachusetts who led the support of Clay’s idea

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Daniel Webster

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20
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Chief Justice who handed down the decision in the Dred Scott case

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Chief Justice Taney

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21
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President who supported the Compromise of 1850

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Millard Fillmore

22
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Lost the Senate election in Illinois to Douglas

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Abraham Lincoln

23
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He beat up a Senator over the issue of slavery and the fact that he was protecting his cousin’s good name

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Rep. Preston Brooks

24
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His idea was called popular sovereignty

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Lewis Cass

25
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Was elected President in 1848

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General Zachary Taylor

26
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Three senators the Great Debate was between

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  1. Henry Clay
  2. Daniel Webster
  3. John Calhoun
27
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Captured John Brown at Harper’s Ferry

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Robert E. Lee

28
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His presidency led to the secession of the Southern States

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Abraham Lincoln

29
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What is the name given to the discussion about slavery, slave trade and the fugitive slave laws?

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Great Debate

30
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What was the series of resolutions that countered the Wilmot Proviso?

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Calhoun Resolution

31
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What was the name of the anti slavery book written that made the average Northerners aware of the problems with slavery?

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

32
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What was the nickname that was given to Kansas because of all the violence?

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Bleeding Kansas

33
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What was the court case that declared the slaves were property?

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Dred Scott Decision

34
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What was the Douglas idea that popular sovereignty could exist but voters could make local laws to prohibit it?

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Freeport Doctrine

35
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What were the proposed amendments to the Constitution that would guarantee slavery would remain where it already was and reinstate the Missouri Compromise?

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Crittenden’s Compromise

36
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What is to withdraw from the Union?

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secede

37
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What were the states that allowed slavery but remained loyal to the Union?

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border states

38
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What was the amendment to a bill that would have banned slavery in all land acquired from Mexico?

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Wilmot Proviso

39
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What is the idea that people should decide for themselves if they want to allow slavery?

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popular sovereignty

40
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What made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and authorized the arrest of escaped slaves in free states?

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Fugitive Slave Laws

41
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What was the informal well organized system to help slaves escape to freedom?

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Underground Railroad

42
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What was the idea to build a railroad to connect east and west?

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Transcontinental Railroad

43
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What term applies to Missourians who where pro-slavery?

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border ruffians

44
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What was the political party formed that was anti Catholic and anti immigration?

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Know Nothing Party

45
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What was the pro-slavery constitution that was proposed that tried to get Kansas admitted as a slave state?

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LeCompton Constitution

46
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What were the four political parties that had candidates in the election of 1860?

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  1. Northern Democrats
  2. Southern Democrats
  3. Republicans
  4. Constitutional Union Party
47
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What was the name given to the Southern states after they seceded from the Union?

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Confederate States of America

48
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What was passed by the states that nullified the US Constitution?

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Ordinance of Secession

49
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What are the four border states?

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  1. Kentucky
  2. Delaware
  3. Missouri
  4. Maryland
50
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What are the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

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  1. California would be admitted as a free state
  2. Popular sovereignty would solve slavery issue in New Mexico and Utah Territories
  3. settle Texas and New Mexico border dispute
  4. abolished slave trade in District of Columbia, NOT slavery
  5. federal enforcement of Fugitive Slave Laws

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