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6 Cards in this Set
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Wilmot Proviso |
Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico |
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secession |
Decision by a state to leave the Union |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states |
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popular sovereignty |
Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery |
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Stephen A. Douglas |
Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850 |
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Millard Fillmore |
13th president |
