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Started popular sovereignty
Lewis Cass
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Whigs elect in 1848
Zachary Taylor
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Immortal trio
Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster
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Clay nickname
Great pacificator
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Calhoun nickname
Great nullifier
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God's moral law is higher than the constitutions
William H. Seward
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Took over Tyler
Millard Fillmore
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Won election of 1852
Franklin Pierce (Dem)
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President of Nicaragua
William Walker (1856)
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Treaty that stopped Americans and British from monopolizing isthmian waterway
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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Ship seized by Spanish
Black Warrior
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Foiled plan to take over Cuba
Ostend Manifesto
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Bought area for transcontinental railroad
Davis amd Gadsden
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Proposed Nebraska-Kansas act
Stephen Douglas
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Book on horror's of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe)
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Book on how non-slaveholding whites suffer
Impeding Crisis of the South (Helper) 1857
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Helped people go to Kansas
New England Emmigrant Aid Company
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Slave backed government at
Shawnee (corrupt)
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Abolition backed government
Topeka
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Town burned by pro-slave whites
Lawrence
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5 men hacked to death
Pottawatomie Creek
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Kansas document which wa unfair and only one section voted for
Lecompton Resolution
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Divided democrats w/ this resolution
Buchanan, Lecompton
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Made a speech about and was beat up by
Sumner, Butler, Brooks
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First republican candidate
John C. Fr�mont
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This party was created out of the election of 1856 and chose thi person a its candidate
Know-Nothing, Pres. Fillmore
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Forbade congress from taking away property
5th Ammendment
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Lowered tariffs
Tariffs of 1857
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No matter what the supreme court ruled, the people are in power
Freeport Doctrine
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Alternative camdidate chosen by Dems
Breckenridge
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New party and its cadidate in election of 1860
Constitutional Union Party, John Bell
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Appeasements to the South after
Crittenden ammendments
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