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A provision in this act meant that a Southerner only had to point out an escaped slave to have that person arrested before a magistrate and possibly be returned to the South.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Alien & Sedition Act
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
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This territory was acquired by the U.S. after the Mexican War.
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Northwest Territory
Mexican Cession
Florida Territory
Louisiana Purchase
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A provision in this act meant that a Southerner only had to point out an escaped slave to have that person arrested before a magistrate and possibly be returned to the South.
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This territory was acquired by the U.S. after the Mexican War.
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This slogan concerned the disagreement between the U.S. and Great Britain over the western border between the U.S. and Canada.
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This phrase describes the fighting that broke out because of an act that was passed which allowed for popular sovereignty.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book which sympathized with slaves and made them appear human; it gained much support in the North.
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He led a raid on a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia to get weapons so that he could arm the slaves and lead a rebellion of the slaves.
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In this Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that the slave was not a citizen and could not sue for his freedom in the Supreme Court. He would remain a slave and would not be free just because his owner had taken him to a free territory.
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This act allowed California to be admitted to the union as a free state.
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Although some people questioned the government's authority to create this, Alexander Hamilton asked Congress to create it to manage the nation's debt and issue paper money.
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Alexander Hamilton justified this with the "necessary and proper clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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His presidency was known as the "Era of Good Feelings."
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This act led to the Trail of Tears.
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Supporters of this man felt he had been cheated out of the presidency in the "Corrupt Bargain."
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South Carolina threatened to veto federal acts of Congress and secede from the union because of the Tariff of 1832, but this was avoided; this is known as the
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Rewarding ones supporters with positions in government is known as
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The purchase of this territory by Thomas Jefferson nearly doubled the size of the U.S.
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Favoring people born in the country, this political party, which kept membership private, was anti-immigrant.
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He was a northern abolitionist who published The Liberator.