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American Pageant 13th edition chapter 18 Quiz Flashcards

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3440593065Great NullifierSenator John C. Calhoun had a view that would bring 2 presidents in one from the North and one from the South each would have the right to veto. Died before the debate was over.0
3440593066Higher LawSenator William Seward's doctrine that slavery should be excluded from the territories as a contrary to a divine moral law standing above even the Constitution.1
3440593069personal liberty lawsLaws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves; used to counter the Fugitive Slave Laws2
3440593076Compromise of 1850by Daniel Webster, California wanted to join the Union, but if California was accepted the North would gain control of the Senate, and Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. This compromise set up California joining the Union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah use popular sovereignty to decide the question of slavery, slave trading is banned in the nation's capital, The Fugitive Slave Law is passed, and the border between Texas and New Mexico was set.3
3440593077Conscience WhigsAntislavery Whigs who opposed both the Texas annexation and the Mexican War on moral grounds4
3440593081Free-Soil Partyformed from the remnants of the Liberty Party in 1848; adopting a slogan of "free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men," it opposed the spread of slavery into territories and supported homesteads, cheap postage, and internal improvements. It ran Martin Van Buren (1848) and John Hale (1852) for president and was absorbed into the Republican Party by 1856.5
3440593082Fugitive Slave Law of 1850Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways. Strengthened the antislavery cause in the North6
3440593088Kansas- Nebraska Act1854 - This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and established a doctrine of congressional nonintervention in the territories. Popular sovereignty (vote of the people) would determine whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free states.7
3440593093NebrascalsThese were northern abolitionists who headed out West to eradicate slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska.8
3440593098Republican PartyA party formed that was against slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It was formed in 1854. Abe Lincoln was a republican president. They wanted Kansas to be admitted as a free state, and they were against popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.9
3440593099Stephen DouglassIllinois politician who beat Abraham Lincoln in a senate race after a series of debates with him. Strong supporter of popular sovereignty and the Kansas Nebraska Act. Ran as a democrat for presidency in 1860 but lost to Lincoln.10
3440593105William SewardAn early supporter of American expansion and Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, he arranged for the US to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 Million. Seward had some trouble persuading the House of Representatives to approve funding for the purchase. It was sometimes called, "Seward's IceBox," "Seward's Folly."11
3440593108Zachary Taylor(1849-1850), Whig president who was a Southern slave holder, and war hero (Mexican-American War). Won the 1848 election. Surprisingly did not address the issue of slavery at all on his platform. He died during his term and his Vice President was Millard Fillmore.12

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