Chapter 15 - The Coming Crisis, the 1850s

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________ introduced Kansas- Nebraska Act to further construct a transcontinental railway to California in an amazing example of the expansionist pressure generated by a market revolution.

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popular sovereignty doctrine

The ________ in Kansas led to continuing civil struggles and political paralysis between two territorial governments.

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Confederal States of America

The ________ were created in February and delegates from the seven seceding States met in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Democratic Nominating Convention

In the ________ of 1860, the split between the Democratic Party and north- south wings that took place during PresidentBuchanan's tenure became the official party.

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New Orleans

There were serious upheavals in ________ and elsewhere, and there was a great deal of violence in the election of 1854 and 1856.

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Pierce

In 1853 ________ entered the White House on a wave of good feelings that were quickly stressed by Pierce's support for "Young America "expansionist goals.

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Kansas

Violence in ________ has been echoed in the nation's cities by increased violence.

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American writers

________ struggled since the turn of the century to find distinctive American subjects, which began in the 1850's as the "American Renaissance "in the break of creative activities.

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Kansas

In ________, residents of Missouri, a slave state itself, were the first to claim land.

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