Misc antebellum events and people
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| Groups that helped escaped slaves evade the slave-catchers | Vigilance Committees
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| Sought to bar slavery from any territory gained from the War with Mexico | Wilmot Proviso
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| Term used to refer to settlers who came from the upper South and Pennsylvania to settle in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; they were rural and hostile to Yankees | Butternuts
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| Declared personal liberty laws unconstitutional | Prigg v. Pennsylvania
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| New Yorkers who supported the Wilmot Proviso and who left the Democratic Party to support Martin Van Buren's 1848 run for the presidency | Barnburners
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| Principle that there were moral principles more important than the Constitution which should lead the nation to abolish slavery | Higher Law
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| Regional meeting called by John C. Calhoun to get southern states to unite in opposition to the Compromise of 1850 | Nashville Convention
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| Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories | Free Soil Party
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| Led a small army to invade Cuba | Narciso Lopez
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| Slave couple who escaped by the wife pretending to be a sickly gentleman going north for medical treatment accompanied by "his" servant | William and Ellen Craft
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| Repealed the Missouri Compromise | Kansas-Nebraska Act
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| Led filibustering expeditions to Baja California and Nicaragua | William Walker
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| Pennsylvania village that was the site of violence when Quakers protected escaped slaves from their master | Christiana
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| Land purchased in the Southwest to facilitate a southern rail route | Gadsden Purchase
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| Escaped slave who was sent back into slavery when Pierce ordered the marines to help return him to slavery despite the owner's willingness to sell him to abolitionists who wanted to purchase his freedom | Anthony Burns
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| Black abolitionist who advocated killing slave-catchers | Frederick Douglass
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| Attempt by Franklin Pierce to acquire Cuba from the Spanish | Ostend Manifesto
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| Group that advocating increasing the waiting period for naturalization to 21 years | Know Nothings
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| Men who went on expeditions to Latin American countries to try to conquer that land to expand the slave territories | Filibusters
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| Group of the Democratic Party that supported expansion and nationalism, including the extension of America to Cuba | Young America
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| What several free states passed to try to guarantee the freedom of slaves who escaped North | Personal liberty laws
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| Political party destroyed by the sectional conflicts arising from the Kansas-Nebraska bill | Whigs
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