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Decision by a state to leave the Union.

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Secession

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Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico.

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Wilmot Proviso

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Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between the free and slave states.

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Compromise of 1850

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Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery.

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Popular sovereignty

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Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850.

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Stephen A. Douglas

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13th president.

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Millard Fillmore

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Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escapes slaves.

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Personal liberty laws

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Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom

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Underground Railroad

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Famous “conductor” of the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Antislavery novel.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that five proslavery people.

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John Brown

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Nickname given to e Kansas Territory because of the bloody violence there.

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Bleeding Kansas

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14th president.

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Franklin Pierce

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Favoring native-born people over immigrants.

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Nativism

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Political party form to stop influence of immigrants.

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Know-Nothing Party

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Political party form to oppose extending slavery in the territories.

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Free-Soil Party

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Political party form to oppose extending slavery in the territories.

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Republican Party

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Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly formed Republican Party.

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Horace Greeley

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Republican candidate in the 1856 presidential election.

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John C. Frémont

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15th President.

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James Buchanan.

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Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory.

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Dred Scott

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Chief Justice who wrote the ruling Dred Scott case.

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Roger B. Taney

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President during the Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln

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Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.

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Freeport Doctrine

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Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves.

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Harpers Ferry

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“Confederate Sates of America,” formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceded from the Union.

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Confederancy

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President of the Confederate States of America.

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Jefferson Davis