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Cards In This Set
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What are the first sixteen presidents in order?
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Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanon, Lincoln
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What was the proposal that stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude would ever exist in any part of the Mexican Cession?
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Wilmot Proviso
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What was a devotion to the interests of one region instead of the slavery controversy?
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Sectionalism
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What was a principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery?
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Popular sovereignty
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Who endorsed the Wilmot Proviso and chose former president Martin Van Buren of New York as its candidate for president?
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Henry Clay
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What was the series of decisions that seemed to be a final settlement of the slavery controversy?
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Compromise of 1850
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What was the law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal?
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Who was the fugitive slave from Virginia who was arrested and jailed in Boston, where a group of abolitionists unsuccessfully tried to rescue him?
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Anthony Burns
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What was a powerful antislavery novel called?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Who was the person who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who was the senator that thought preservation of the United States was important?
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Daniel Webster
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In 1848 California experienced a ____ that rapidly increaded its population.
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Gold rush
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Who was the senator who spoke for much of the South during the debate over the Compromise of 1850?
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John C. Calhoun
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Who thought that California should be admitted as a free state immediately?
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William Seward
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What was a point of Compromise of 1850?
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A new, more effective slave law
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