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A movement against the extension of slavery into the West so that White settlers wouldn't have Black competition
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Free-soil movement
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Party whose objectives were the prevention of slave expansion into the West, free homesteads, and internal improvements
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Free-soil party
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Whigs who opposed slavery
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Conscience Whigs
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Antislavery Democrats
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"barnburners"
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Allowing settlers to vote whether the land they settle should be free or slave
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Popular sovereignty
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Democratic senator from Michigan who proposed popular sovereignty
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Lewis Cass
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Man who proposed the Compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay
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President who supported the immediate admission of CA and NM as free states despite being a Southern slaveholder himself
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Zachary Taylor
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Compromise that suggested CA be admitted as a free state, ban slave trade in the District of Columbia but allow current slaves to be held, and adopt a rigorously enforced Fugitive Slave Law; held the nation together a little longer
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Compromise of 1850
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Senator from IL who engineered that the Compromise of 1850 be passed in parts separately
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Strong supporter of the Compromise of 1850 who came into the Presidency after Taylor's sudden death in 1850.
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Millard Fillmore
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Chief purpose was to track down runaway slaves and return them to Southern owners; persuaded Southerners to accept CA's admission as a free state, but was bitterly opposed by anti-slave supporters in the North
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Secret network that helped escaped slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada
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Underground Railroad
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Escaped slave who made at least 19 trips to the South in order to help some 300 slaves escape bondage
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Harriet Tubman
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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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