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Cash crop grown throughout the South in the antebellum period
Term for selling troubled slaves to harsher conditions in the Deep South
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this famous book the stoked the abolitionist flames
Led a slave rebellion in Virginia. Leads to tightening of slavery laws throughout the American South
American Colonization Society wanted to send freed slaves to ________
Famous editor of the anti-slavey Liberator
Famous abolitionist who called for the immediate end to slavery
Famous woman aboltionist who gave the speech 'Ain't I a Woman?'
Former slave who escapes slavery and becomes a loud voice for abolition
Movement that did not want slavery to be extended to the territories gained from Mexico
Tippecanoe
Author of many compromises on slavery and the American Plan
Prominent Whig Senator from Massachusetts
The Webster Ashburton Treaty set the border for this American state
Major route for American westward movement in the mid nineteenth century
James Polk slogan about how to settle the Oregon Territory
River that was the subject of a border dispute with Mexico before the Mexican-American War
Leader of Mexican army
Created the California Republic during the Mexican American War
Treaty that ended the Mexican American War
Would have banned slavery in the newly acquired territories from Mexico
Lewis Cass was the leading spokesperson for this idea where the people would decide whether or not to have slavery
3rd Party that was formed to make sure that slavery stayed out of the newly acquired territories
Discovery of this led to the quick settlement of the California territory
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Secret transportation of slaves from the South into locations in the North
The 'Moses of her People.' Famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Made it legal for Southern slaveowners to send bounty hunters to recover runaway slaves in free states
Allowed California in as a free state in return for a stricter Fugitive Slave Law
President who signed the Compromise of 1850
Early American explorer in Japan
Purchased from Mexico in preparation for a Southern transcontinental railroad
Senator from Illinois who was a champion for popular sovereignty
Split the Nebraska territory into two states that would be divided by popular sovereignty
States created by the Missouri Compromise
Line above which slavery would not be allowed according to the Missouri compromise
Abolitionist novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Radical abolitionist who led the Jayhawkers in Kansas and a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Pro-slavery constitution in Kansas
Attacked by Preston Brooks with a cane
3rd party that was formed solely to oppose immigration
Supreme Court decision that said that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere in the United states
Stephen Douglas' answer to Lincoln's question about popular sovereignty during the Senatorial debates
Was the first state to secede
Government formed by the seceding states
President of the CSA
Last ditch compromise to save the Union by legitimizing slavery in the Constitution
 

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