Module 17
To formally withdraw from the Union
Secede
Senator Henry Clay’s five part proposal to address the issue of slavery and save the Union
Compromise of 1850
12th President of the United States who died in office who loved milk and cherries
Zachary Taylor
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed—that all men are created equal."
MLK JR.
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Idea that political power belonged to the people
Popular Sovereignty
A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
13th President of the United States who signed the Compromise of 1850 into law
Millard Fillmore
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."
JFK
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Northern abolitionist Senator who was caned by a pro-slavery southern Senator for his beliefs
Charles Sumner
The complete end to slavery
Abolition
14th President of the United States who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law
Franklin Pierce
"A Republic if you can keep it."
Benjamin Franklin
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The political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners, which supported the Wilmot Proviso
Free-Soil Party
Abolitionist leader and famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who saved hundreds of slaves. The Moses of African Americans
Harriet Tubman
15th President of the United State who allowed seven (7) states to secede from the Union, beginning the Civil War
James Buchanan
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Teddy Roosevelt
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Illinois Senator who supported a railroad to the Pacific Ocean and wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Network of people who helped thousands of slaves escape to the north providing transportation & shelter
Underground Railroad
16th President of the United States who freed enslaved African Americans & ended the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
"that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln
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