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American Pageant Chapter 18 Vocab Flashcards

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Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 18 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.

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1169509477Popular SovereigntyPopularized by Democrat Stephen Douglas, idea that people in a territory should decide for themselves whether they should be slave or free1
1169509478Ostend ManifestoIdea that US should buy Cuba from Spain for $120 million, or go to war for it. Cuba would become a slave state.2
1169509479Free-Soil PartyPrelude to the Republican Party, against the spread of slavery in the Mexican Cession, felt slavery took jobs away from Whites.3
1169509480Clayton-Bulwer TreatyAmerica and Britain agreed not to control any future isthmuses in Latin America4
1169509481Conscious WhigsMembers of the respective party that opposed slavery on moral grounds5
1169509482Gadsden PurchaseArea of land in southern AZ and NM, important to the transcontinental RR, under Franklin Pierce's administration6
1169509483Compromise of 1850Added CA as a free state, tougher fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession7
1169509484Personal Liberty LawsPassed by many states it the north, denied jails and courts for federal officials trying to capture slaves8
1169509485Fugitive Slave ActPart of Compromise of 1850, harsher treatment for runaway slaves, North held accountable for helping out runaway slaves9
1169509486Kansas-Nebraska ActOverturned the MO (1820) Compromise, popular sovereignty established for KS and NB10
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