Chapter 18 Cause and Effect
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TylerNix on December 15, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The evasion of the slavery issue by Whigs and Democrats in 1848 | Led to the formation of the new Free Soil antislavery party |
| The California gold rush | Made the issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession ares more urgent |
| The Underground railroad | Aroused southern demads for an effective fugitiv-slave law |
| The Free Soil Party | Was the predecessor of the antislavery Republican Party |
| The Compromise of 1850 | Created a short lived national mood of optimism and reconciliation |
| The Fugitive Slave Law | Aroused active northern resistance to legal enforcement and prompted attemps at nullification in Massachusetts |
| The Pierce administration's schemes to aquire Cuba | Fell apart after the leaking of the Ostend Manifesto |
| The Gadsden Purchase | Heightened competition between southern and northern railroad promoters over the choice of a transcontinental route |
| Stephen Douglas's indefference to slavery and desire for a nothern railroad route | Led to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, without regard for the consequences |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | Cause a tremendous northern protest and the birth of the republican party |
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