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| Four main causes of the Civil War (according to Amsco) |
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- slavery - growing moral issue in north; expanding in south
- constitutional disputes - over nature of federal Union and state's rights
- economic differences - industrial north/ agricultural south; tariffs, banking, internal improvements
- political blunders and extremism - on both sides
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| free-soil movement; Free Soil Party |
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| In the North, antislavery forces and racists alike could find common ground in their support for the free soil position. Free-soilers did not demand the end of slavery. Instead they sought to keep the West a land of opportunity for whites only so that the white majority would not have to compete with the labor of slaves or free blacks. Along with trying to prevent to extension of slavery, it advocated free homesteads and internal improvements. |
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| Afaction of the Whig Party in the state of Massachusetts noted for their moral opposition to slavery. |
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| Aka antislavery Democrats, who were ridiculed as "barnburners" because their desertion from loyalty to the Democratic party. It was part of the Free Soil party that nominated Martin Van Buren. |
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| When a problem or issue is determined by the vote of the people who settled the territory. Lewis Cass proposed this be used to determine whether slavery be allowed in the new Western territories/states. |
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| A Democratic senator from Michigan who proposed a compromise solution that won considerable support. Instead of Congress determining whether to allow slavery in a new western territory or state, it would be determined by a vote of the people who settled there, or popular sovereignty. |
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| a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives. He served three different terms as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. |
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| 12th President of the United States (1849–1850) and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass. Taylor was the last President to hold slaves while in office, and the second and also last Whig to win a presidential election. Still, he supported the idea of admitting California and New Mexico as free-states. |
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| A proposal by Henry Clay that was later passed. It admitted CA as a free state, divided the Mexican Cession (area given by Mexico from war) into Utah and New Mexico and gave them popular sovereignty over slavery. It banned the slave trade, but permitted slaves in DC and created a new Fugitive Slave Law which enraged many northerners. It was passed by President Millard Fillmore. |
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| A senator from Illinois who engineered diferent coalitions to pass each part of the Compromise of 1850 seperately. |
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| Fugitive Slave Law (1850) |
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| The law's chief purpose was to track down fugitive slaves who had escaped to nothern states, capture them, and return them to their owners. It put fugitive slave cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal gov't. It was a major part of the compromise of 1850. The law was often resisted by antislavery northerners. |
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