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Sectionalism 1820-1850

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Compromise of 1850   Compromise between North and South on issue of slavery; California enters Union as free state and a stricter fugitive slave law is implemented  
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John C. Calhoun   Political theorist and vice president who favored Southern secession  
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Daniel Webster   Nationalistic views made him leader of Whig Party  
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William Lloyd Garrison   Radical abolitionist who called for immediate end to slavery  
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Frederick Douglass   Former slave who devoted himself to abolition by getting involved in politics  
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Sojourner Truth   Former slave; abolitionist and women's rights advocate  
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Harriet Tubman   Escaped slave who conducted Underground Railroad, risking life to help others escape  
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Uncle Tom's Cabin   Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that became famous internationally and turned many people against slavery  
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American Slavery As It Is   Theodore Dwight Weld; powerful antislavery book  
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Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World   David Walker; call to awaken African Americans to seek unity and end struggle  
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The Impending Crisis of the South   Hinton Helper; took different antislavery angle--attempted to prove how slavery negatively affected Southern whites  
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Nullification Crisis   1832; South Carolina fought to declare tariffs void in state; began SC idea of secession  
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Nat Turner Rebellion   1831; Virginia slave rebellion  
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Free Soil Party   1848; abolitionist political party  
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Irish & German Immigration   Influx of immigrants caused by potato famine and political conflicts and revolutions  
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Nativists   Anti-immigration group; mostly focused against Germans and Irish; also anti-Catholic  
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