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APUSH Review #4

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Election of 1824   Election between presidential and vice- presidential candidates competing for new political world, and sectional allegiance, as well as, issues.   winner = John Quincy Adams, won under less than 1/3 of voter's votes, "Corrupt Bargain"  
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Andrew Jackson   The seventh president   hero in the South, brought The Spoils System and the unpopular "Tariff of Abominations"  
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Corrupt Bargain   Bargained entrance into office for support in a campaign   Turned personalities and sectional allegiances more important than issues to win support from states to gain presidency, used by Henry Clay and John Q. Adams  
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John Quincy Adams   The sixth president   Helped shape the federal union by asserting a central government and promoted internal improvements by using the issues arriving from the Articles of Confederation  
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Election of 1828   Election between Jackson and Adams   Jackson's election was the revolution of the "Common Man".  
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Eaton Affair   Many cabinet members snubbed the socially unacceptable Mrs. Eaton   Jackson sided with the Eatons, and the affair helped to dissolve the cabinet - especially those members associated with John C. Calhoun (V.P.), who was against the Eatons and had other problems with Jackson.  
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Henry Clay   Speaker of the House of Representatives from Kentucky   sought a compromise that would help nullifiers with a tariff to cause  
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Nullification   The right that a state could impose state authority and in effect repeal a   To draw the line at any defiance of federal law, stopping short of  
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John C. Calhoun   Powerful leader, Speaker of the House of South Carolina and vice-   saw nullification as a way of preserving the Union while preventing  
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Webster-Hayne Debate   Debate between Robert Hayne and Daniel Webster that questioned   Sharpened lines between states' rights and the Union  
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South Carolina Ordinance   Advocates of nullification who took the initiative in organization and agitation by holding a special legislative session that called for a election of state convention   Adopted a nullification ordinance that repudiated the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 as unconstitutional and forbade collection of duties in states after Feb. 1, 1833  
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Force Bill   Document that authorized the army to compel compliance with the federal law in South Carolina   Eventually being nullified, South Carolina secured a reduction of the tariff  
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Trail of Tears   Journey marked by the cruelty and neglect of soldiers and private contractors by the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles to Oklahoma   8,000 exiles survived the journey, 4,000 died  
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Cherokee v. Georgia   The case in which the Cherokees sought relief in the Supreme Court   John Marshall ruled that the court jurisdiction and that they had an unquestionable right to their lands until they wished to cede from the U.S.  
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Second Bank of the United States   Expansive of a facilitated business that supplied currency and acted as the collecting and dispersing agent for the federal government   Government's revenue soared, bank became most powerful leading institution in the country and able to determine the amount of available credit for the Union  
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Election of 1832   Presidential campaign where for the first time a third party entered the field between Clay, Jackson, and William Wirt   Jackson won the election with 219 votes  
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Roger Taney   Nation's attorney general   racist against blacks and supported segregation  
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King Andrew I   The name given to Jackson by his opponents for their hostile opinions about Jackson's Maysville veto an abuse of power   Began to put together a new coalition of diverse elements  
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Spoils System   "To the victor go the spoils" - the winner of the election may do whatever they want with the staff.   Jackson made more staff changes than any previous president, firing many people and replacing them with his own.  
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Whigs   Name that linked Jackson's opponents to the patriots of the American Revolution   Urban banking and commercial interests, planter associates, owners of most of the slaves in the region, the party of economic nationalism and promoted social reforms  
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Election of 1836   Election where a new two-party system was emerging from Jackson forces   Hoping to throw the election into the House of Representatives, resulting in free- for- all reminiscent of 1824; Democratic candidate Van Buren won  
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Martin Van Buren   The eighth president and vice-president to Jackson   skilled in the arts of organization and being manipulative; political schemer  
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Panic of 1837   Financial panic inherited by Van Buren   economic failure causing a rise in food prices, wage cuts, and the government losing $9 million  
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Independent Treasury Act   Plan where the government would keep its funds in its own vaults and do business in hard money   Van Buren gained western support by backing a more liberal land policy  
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William Henry Harrison   From Ohio, a victor at battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana territory governor, served shortest presidential term   Died exactly one month after his inauguration, he had the longest inaugural address  
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King Cotton   Cash crop   Britain's prime textile product  
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Clermont   steamboat invented by Robert Fulton   fastest boat of its time  
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Erie Canal   canal used for freight delivery   brought Midwest agriculture up, provided construction and maintenance jobs  
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Railroads   Provided a faster, reliable, and cheaper way to travel by land   One of the most significant contributions to the economy  
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Cyrus Hall McCormick   contributed the mechanical mower- reaper   provided the easier way in the 1830s for farmers in western states  
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Charles Goodyear   Invented the vulcanization of rubber   made rubber more durable  
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Samuel F. Morse   Inventor of the telegraph   provided a better way of communication through Congress  
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Elias Howe   Invented the sewing machine   provided a foundation for the clothing industry  
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The Lowell System   Method of paternalistic management for young girls to work in mechanized mills   showed humanity can go hand in hand with industrial success  
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Minstrel shows   Working class White men imitating African slaves in musical or play forms   became unpopular when African-Americans achieved higher positions in life  
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Immigration in the 1840s- 1850s   Immigrants from places like Ireland and Northwest Europe fled their land from potato famine   immigrants originally planned to stay until there was enough money made to go back home and under safe conditions only  
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Nativism   Anti- Immigrant sentiment   suppressed immigrants from any political activities  
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Know Nothings   Delegate party that did not vote for foreign-born or Catholic candidates   swept Massachusetts legislature and denounced immigrants and Catholics out of public office  
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Deism   It advances the theory that God exists, that He created the universe, but does not intervene in the affairs of humankind   Deists generally place their trust in reason and disdain revelation as well as the teachings of a specific church  
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Unitarianism   the belief in the oneness of God, the inheritance of goodness of human kind, andthe primary of individual's reason and conscience over established creeds and Scriptural literalism   made people stressed about being eligible for salvation  
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Universalism   a belief as a parallel movement totally opposite of Unitarianism believing that God is too merciful to destroy   believed God was too good for damnation  
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Second Great Awakening   a religious revival sparked by the fears that secularism was taking over   a new wave of evangelical fervor fed upon the spreading notion of social equality  
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Charles Grandison Finney   The most successful evangelist, a lawyer, and the greatest single exemplar of evangelical Protestantism   he subjected the Burned- Over District and the inventor of professional revivalism  
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Mormons   Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints   they were responsible for providing the scene for the revivals during the 2nd Great Awakening  
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Transcendentalism   The most intensive expression of such romantic ideals rising above the limits of reason   it was a belief made from combinations of New England Protestants and European Philosophers  
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Emily Dickinson   A female poet   agoraphobic who wrote 1800 poems and only 2 were published after her death  
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Nathaniel Hawthorne   The supreme writer of the New England group of fictional writers   wrote "The Scarlet Letter"  
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Edgar Allen Poe   Writer of restraint, discipline, and unity   wrote "Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Raven"  
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Herman Melville   Novelist who had 2 years of schooling   wrote "Moby Dick"  
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Walt Whitman   Writer who disdained social conventions and artistic traditions   provocative writer of "Leaves to Grass"  
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Horace Mann   From Massachusetts, originally trained to be a lawyer   created a bill that created a state board of education and defended school system  
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Temperance   A method of approach, social reforms mobilized against the "alcoholic republic"   there were crusades and movements that reduced the consumption of alcohol  
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Dorothea Dix   A middle class woman   helped change the status of women, co- wrote the historian called "cult of domesticity"  
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Lucretia Mott   Female Philadelphian Quaker   called a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women and helped change women's status  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Female graduate from Troy Seminar   organized the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments  
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Utopian Communities   a persuasive climate of reform during the Jacksonian Era   Utopians were tired of their environment and surroundings and created new communities with over 100 other communities between the years 1800 and 1900  
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John Tyler   a thin, fragile Virginia slaveholder   He was the youngest President to date and was the first Vice President to succeed on the death of a President and practically served all of Harrison’s term.  
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Manifest Destiny   a statement an eastern magazine editor labeled   It offered a moral justification for American expansion and joined Americans of diverse ethnic origin and religious persuasion.  
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Plains Indians   Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Sioux horse-borne nomads   They discovered the gold in California  
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New Mexico   a former non-state of the United States of America   Americans were having a debate over the annexation because of how much territory would be received  
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California Gold Rush   when people from all over the world were trying to make sure they receive some of the gold.   It sparked many problems because of the different ideas of who should receive the most gold.  
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Donner Party   George Donner, a prosperous 62 year old farmer, from Illinois had a party that traveled.   He led his family and a wagon train of other settlers along the Oregon Trail in 1846 and was forced to turn to cannibalism.  
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John Fremont   a Savannah born premier press agent for California and the Far West generally.   earned the nickname “the Pathfinder” and was the 2nd lieutenant in the United States Topographical Corps in 1838.  
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Annexation of Texas   U.S. made Texas a state in 1845   Joint resolution - both houses of Congress supported annexation under Tyler, and he signed the bill shortly before leaving office.  
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Alamo   a battle where there was a Mexican victory   The Mexican dictator signed a treaty recognizing Texas’ independence  
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Election of 1844   Candidates were James K. Polk - Democrat. Henry Clay - Whig. James G. Birney - Liberty Party.   Issues were Manifest Destiny, the annexation of Texas and the reoccupation of Oregon, tariff reform.  
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James K. Polk   Charlotte-born 11th President of the United States   He was he youngest President to date.  
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Oregon   33rd state to be admitted into the United States   They had issues that heated up as expansionists aggressively insisted that Polk abandon previous offers.  
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Mexican War   a war that took place in early June 1846 in which the British government submitted a draft treaty.   There were many different battles and the annexation of California took place during this time.  
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General Zachary Taylor   the 12th President of the United States of America   On December 4, 1849, he endorsed immediate statehood for California and enjoined Congress to avoid injecting slavery into the issue.  
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Santa Anna   an elderly dictator   He was forced out in 1844 and returned in 1846 back in command and was named the President of the Mexican army once again.  
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General Winfield Scott   a democratic general called to the field of command by Polk   He had a conquest that added luster to his name.  
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   signed on February 2, 1848 after the fall of the capital   It forced Mexico to give up all claims to Texas above the Rio Grande and ceded California and New Mexico to the United States.  
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Southern planters   Plantation owners who advocated slavery   crops grew and business was made but the people who tended to that farm were still slaves.  
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Duels   The duel constituted the ultimate public expression of personal honor and manly courage   Although not confined to the South, dueling was much more common there than in the rest of the young nation, a fact that gave rise to the observation that southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you  
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Free Persons of Color   freed slaves in the northern part of the country.   more people started to realize the bad affects of slavery and the former slaves were standing out against it.  
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American Colonization Society of 1817   a group of people who wanted to remove blacks from the United States   Formed in 1817, it purchased a tract of land in Liberia and returned free Blacks to Africa.  
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William Lloyd Garrison   Active in religious reform movements in Massachusetts, began a publishing career in 1828 as editor of an antislavery newspaper.   Three years later he established his own paper, The Liberator, to deliver an uncompromising message: immediate emancipation.  
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The Liberator   Paper published by William Lloyd Garrison delivering an uncompromising message: immediate emancipation, the freeing of slaves, with no payment to slaveholders   Garrison founded the New England anti-slavery society in 1832, and then helped found the national American Anti-slavery society the following year  
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Abolition   the ending of legal slavery   Ends slavery and blacks were free to do their lives instead of their masters  
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Sojourner Truth   real name was Isabella Baumfree, a slave for the first 30 years of her life. Freed from slavery she became Sojourner Truth to spread the truth about slavery.   Sojourner Truth made audiences snap to attention. Truth fought for women’s rights, abolition, prison reform, and temperance.  
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Frederick Douglass   Was born into slavery in 1817 and was taught how to read and write by the wife of his owners.   a superb speaker who broke with Garrison in 1847 and began his own antislavery newspaper. He named it, the North Star, after the star that guided runaway slaves to freedom.  
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The North Star   Name of Garrison’s newspaper, the star that the runaway slaves followed that was believed to lead to freedom   they rebelled from slavery and simply wanted to leave, and many tried to run away, some successfully  
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Harriet Tubman   A famous conductor who was born a slave in Maryland in 1820 or 1821.   Shortly after the passage of the fugitive slave act, Tubman resolved to become a conductor on the underground railroad.  
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Wilmot Proviso   Wilmot Proviso meant that California, as well as the territories of Utah and New Mexico, would be closed to slavery forever.   The proviso was attached to a different bill, and was once again passed by the House of Representatives but rejected by the Senate  
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Popular Sovereignty   The right of the residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery   it allowed both sides (both North and South) to be satisfied.  
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Free Soil   a party that opposed the extension of slavery into new territories.   Free soilers detected a dangerous pattern in such events as the passage of the fugitive slave act and the repeal of the Missouri compromise.  
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California   a state that was fought over by the North and the South to whether it should be a free or slave state   was admitted as a free state and a lot of the population moved there.  
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Compromise of 1850   a series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free and slave states.   Held off Civil War for about 11 years  
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Henry Clay   Southern from Kentucky and a speaker of the House of Representatives had for sought a compromise that helped nullifiers without a tariff.   Composed the Compromise of 1850 and got almost all of them passed.  
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Millard Fillmore   Supporter of the Compromise of 1850   Kept on supporting the compromise  
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Stephen A. Douglas   Senator, unbundled the compromise of 1850 and reintroduced them one at a time.   Found the key to pass the entire compromise  
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Fugitive Slave Act   a law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage   Northerners resisted it by organizing violence committees to send endangered African Americans to safety in Canada.  
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin   a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852.   Stirred strong reactions from northerners and southerners alike. The message was that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.  
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Election of 1852   nominated was General Winfield Scott, and Franklin Pierce   Franklin Pierce won the presidency. Runner up was General Winfield Scott.  
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Franklin Pierce   the first “doughface” president. A northern man with southern principles   his expansionist goals aroused suspicion and hostility in anti-slavery northerners  
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Cuba   was sought to have been bought from Spain by Pierce, but was declined. Urged military seizure of Cuba should Spain remain intransigent   the seeking to annex potential slave territory such as Cuba, seemed to be working for the good of the south  
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Kansas-Nebraska Crisis   a bill was introduced in Congress to organize the area west of Missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska   the bill was opposed by most Northern Democrats and a majority of the remaining Whigs, but with the support of the Southern-dominated Pierce administration it was passed and signed into law.  
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Republican Party   In the North, many Democrats left the party and were joined by former Whigs and Know-Nothings in the newly created Republican Party.   the Republican Power quickly became a major power in national politics  
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Bleeding Kansas   the Northern press reference of the two sides that began arming themselves and then erupted into a full-scale guerilla war for control of the state.   Some 200 died in the months of guerilla fighting that followed.  
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Senator Charles Sumner   of Massachusetts, made a two-day speech entitled “The Crime Against Kansas,” in which he not only denounced slavery but also made degrading personal references to aged South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler   Sumner was beat about the head and shoulders with a cane, leaving him bloody and unconscious by Congressman Preston Brooks  
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Sectionalism   Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West).   This can lead to conflict.  
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Election of 1856   a three-way contest that pitted Democrats, Know-Nothings, and Republicans against each other.   the Republicans demonstrated surprising strength for a political party only two years old and made clear that they, and not the Know-Nothings, would replace the moribund Whigs as the other major party along with the Democrats.  
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James Buchanan   a veteran of forty years of politics   his chief qualification for the nomination was that during the slavery squabbles of the past few years he had been out of the country as American ministers to Great Britain and therefore did not take public positions on the controversial issues.  
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Dred Scott decision   Court ruled that not only did Scott have no standing to sue in federal court, but also that temporary residence in a free state, even for several years, did not make a slave free.   Southerners were encouraged to take an extreme position and refuse compromise, while anti-slavery Northerners became more convinced than ever that there was a pro-slavery conspiracy controlling all branches of government.  
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Lecompton Constitution   was stated that should the Lecompton constitution be approved, Kansas would receive a generous grant of federal land, but if not, Kansas would remain a territory   Kansas was finally admitted as a free state in 1861  
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Panic of 1857   caused by several years of over speculation in railroads and lands, faulty banking practices, and an interruption in the flow of European capital into American investments as a result of the Crimean War.   The North blamed the Panic on low tariffs, while the south saw the Panic as proof of the superiority of the Southern economy in general and slavery in particular  
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Abraham Lincoln   a Springfield lawyer that was little known outside the state opposed Stephen A. Douglas in a number of debates   he lost the debates, but gained major success because it propelled him into the national spotlight  
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates   the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign that produced a series of debates that got to the heart of the issues that were threatening to divide the nation.   Douglas’s answer won him re-election to the Senate but hurt him in the coming presidential campaign and Lincoln benefited from the debate by claiming the national spotlight and strengthening the backbone of the Republican party  
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John Brown   the Pottawatomie Creek murderer, led eighteen followers in seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in a raid.   Many southerners became convinced that the entire Northern public approved of Brown’s action and that the only safety for the South lay in a separate Southern confederacy.  
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Secession   South Carolina declared itself out of the Union, then about 2 months later, six more states (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) had followed suit   They then met in Montgomery, Alabama and declared themselves to be the Confederate States of America  
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