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Know-Nothing (American) Party "anti-immigration, anti-Catholic, popular in the 1850s, adopted each local region's view of slavery"

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~~Franklin Pierce "1852: Democratic, proslavery, dark horse nominee, won because the Whigs collapsed over slavery issue"~~

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Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854: Sen. Douglas obtained its passage; historians consider it the greatest single step towards Civil War; this Act replaced Missouri Compromise with ""popular sovereignty"" for new territories, causing mini-wars"

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~~Republican Party "1854: founded to stop expansion of slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Fugitive Slave Law, & slavery in DC"~~

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~~early leaders of Republican Party abolitionists Charles Sumner & George Julian; Free-Soilers Salmon Chase; conservative Whigs also~~

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~~Ostend Manifesto 1854: future Pres Buchanan tells Spain sell Cuba to US or lose it by force; caused negative feelings & failed~~

"""Bleeding Kansas""" 1850s: term used by Horace Greeley to describe the fight between pro and anti slavery people in Kansas

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