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Term for the bloody struggle between proslavery and antislavery factions in Kansas following its organization as a territory in the fall of 1854
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Plan promoted by Democratic candidate Senator Lewis Cass under which Congress would allow settlers in each territory to determine its status as free or slave
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1846 proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennslyvania to ban slavery in territory acquired from the Mexican Warr
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1854 Law that divided Indian Territory into Kansas ans Nebraska
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Termed coined by John L. O'Sullivan in 1845 to express that Euro-Americans were fated to settle in the North American continent
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A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery
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The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in California in 1849 as part of that territory's gold rush
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A small slice of land purchased by President Franklin Pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line from New York to Los Angeles
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Whig politicians who opposed the Mexican War (1846-1848)
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