Bill that divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery | ||
Southern extremists who threatened to secede from the Union | ||
Democratic candidate, hero of the War of 1812, but pompous and not very well liked | ||
The idea that the territories/states should determine whether or not to allow slavery in their boundaries | ||
Whig candidate, hero of Buena Vista | ||
Candidate not chosen by the Whigs | ||
Reason Whigs did not go with the seemingly obvious candidate choice | ||
Party formed by northern abolitionists who distrusted the Democrats and Whigs | ||
Free Soil Party values | ||
Groups the Free Soil Party attracted | ||
Group that opposed slavery based upon moral issues | ||
Candidate proposed by the Free Soil Party | ||
Party that the Free Soil Party would foreshadow | ||
Reason the Free Soil Party opposed slavery | ||
Crucial state in Cass-Taylor election | ||
Location of the Mason-Dixon line | ||
State whose admission into the Union caused controversy in the South | ||
Path that many escaping slaves took to flee to the North | ||
One of the most famous and most successful "conductors" of the Underground Railroad | ||
Law that the South promoted that would make life harder for escaped slaves | ||
Senator who supports Henry Clay in his urgings to the North to partially yield to the Fugitive Slave Law | ||
Speech that helped sway the North into accepting the Fugitive Slave Law | ||
Man who gave the Seventh of March Speech | ||
Man who was against continuing slavery and proposed a higher law than the constitution | ||
Successor of Zachary Taylor, and signs into law many compromises | ||
One of the compromises Millard Fillmore signed that tilted slightly towards the North | ||
Conditions of Compromise of 1850 | ||
Bill that stated that fleeing slaves would not be able to testify in court | ||
Laws created by abolition-minded states that denied local jails to federal officials | ||
Significance of 1852 elections | ||
Democratic nomination in the 1852 elections, pro-southern northerner | ||
Whig candidate in the 1852 elections, war hero from Mexican War | ||
Whigs who supported Daniel Webster in the 1852 elections | ||
Pierce's Secretary of War | ||
land strip between two larger land masses | ||
Caribbean nation that was next in America's conquest to fulfill Manifest Destiny | ||
American explorer who conquers Nicaragua | ||
Town the British secure in order to halt American power over Nicaragua, a key nation to Britain's trade | ||
Treaty that ends tensions between Britain and America over Nicaragua | ||
Military commander who forced Japan to open its doors to the Western world | ||
Meeting where Japan was convinced to allow free trade with the Western world | ||
Led attacks on Cuba and outrages the South | ||
Ship captured by Spain, allowing President Pierce to declare war for Cuba. | ||
War that prevented other European nations from sending aid to Spain | ||
Urged administration to offer $120 million from Cuba and declare war if this was refused | ||
Problems between South and North | ||
Man who negotiated the Gadsden Purchase with Mexico and expanded America | ||
Two states made from the Nebraska Territory | ||
Act that split Nebraska Territory into two states and made one slave and one free | ||
Runaway slave famous for mailing himself in a box to Philadelphia | ||
Universal cure | ||
Place of refuge | ||
Policy of extending country's power and influence through diplomatic or military force |
American Pageant Ch 18
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