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15.6: Key Terms

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    • Bleeding Kansas
    • Bleeding Sumner
    • John Bell
    • John Breckinridge
    • John Brown
    • James Buchanan
    • John C. Calhoun
    • Lewis Cass
    • Democratic Convention(s) of 1860
    • Henry Clay
    • Compromise of 1850
    • Crittenden Compromise
    • Jefferson Davis
    • Dred Scott v. Sandford
    • Stephen A. Douglas
    • Millard Fillmore
    • “fire eaters”
    • Free Soil Party
    • John C. Fremont
    • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    • Gadsden Purchase
    • Harper’s Ferry
    • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • Know-Nothing Party (American Party)
    • Lecompton Constitution
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Ostend Manifesto
    • Panic of 1857
    • Franklin Pierce
    • Popular sovereignty
    • Republican Party
    • Republican Convention of 1860
    • Winfield Scott
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Zachary Taylor
    • Daniel Webster
    • Wilmot Proviso

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