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  1. 5. He was an American lawyer and was the 16th president of the US
  2. 7. federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the civil war were fired.
  3. 8. 1846 treaty ending the Mexican-American War
  4. 10. use of water to erode gravel hills into long sluices to catch any gold
  5. 12. former president of the Confederate States of America
  6. 13. He was a politician
  7. 15. He was an American lawyer, soldier and was the youngest vice president ever.
  8. 16. miners who went to california afte the discovery of gold in 1848
  9. 17. Proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War.
  10. 18. political party establshed aroudn an anti-slavery platform in 1854.
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  1. 1. government of 11 southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against the Union in the CIvil War
  2. 2. political party of the mid-1800s, officially known as the American party, that opposed immigration
  3. 3. Mass migration.
  4. 4. He was an American lawyer who was famous for the decision in the Dred Scott court case.
  5. 6. He was an enslaved person who accompanied his owner in war as an Army physician.
  6. 9. use of metal pans, picks, and shovels to harvest gold from the banks and bottoms of rivers and streams.
  7. 11. 1861 proposed constitutional amendment that attempted to prevent secession of the southern states by allowing slavery in all territories south of the Missouri compromise.
  8. 14. 1853 purchase of land from Mexico