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- 2. He first became famous for leading a small band of fighters in Bleeding Kansas, killing several proslavery supporters
- 4. President of texas, and advocated annexation by the United States
- 6. A republic declared in 1836
- 10. Sixteenth president whose 1860 election triggered the secession of several states, and deftly led the Union through the ensuing Civil War
- 13. An unrecognized independent California led by John C. Fremont and annexed into the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 14. Antislavery advocates from various political parties founded this to oppose the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories
- 15. A package of several bills that alleviated some of the tension between the North and South
- 17. Tenth President
- 19. The nickname for a period of bloody conflict in what became Kansas
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- 1. Advocates for ending slavery
- 2. A Tennessee Whig nominated by the Constitutional Union Party in 1860
- 3. God’s will for the United States to expand westward
- 5. Nickname for an influx of immigrants to California in 1849 seeking riches in the gold rush
- 7. The site of a famous battle in San Antonio, Texas
- 8. A financial crisis that lasts from 1837 until the mid-1840s
- 9. this novel expressed Northern abolitionist frustrations with the Fugitive Slave Act
- 11. A statesman and orator from Kentucky, Clay was known as “The Great Compromiser”
- 12. The population of California ballooned as prospectors flocked to the state to seek a fortune in mining gold
- 16. Also known as the Grand Old Party
- 18. Families traveled up to six months in caravans