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Wilmot Proviso
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Henry Clay
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Compromise of 1850
Map of free and slave states circa 1856 The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side disliked specific provisions.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
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Franklin Pierce
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The Know-Nothing Party
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John C. Fremont
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Benjamin R. Curtis
Curtis was the first and only Whig justice of the Supreme Court. He was also the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal legal degree and is the only justice to have resigned from the court over a matter of principle. He successfully acted as chief counsel for President Andrew Johnson during the first presidential impeachment trial.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Freeport Doctrine
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John Brown
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Jefferson Davis
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1854 Kansas- Nebraska Act
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"Bleeding Kansas"
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Summer- Brooks Affair
Dred Scott
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Free Soil Party
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Stephen A. Douglas
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1853 Gadsden Purchase
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Frederick Douglass
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