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Wilmot Proviso
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A bill to outlaw slavery in any land gained from Mexico.
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outlaw Mexico land
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Free - Soil Party
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A political party dedicated to stopping expansion of slavery
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Ending Slavery
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Henry Clay
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A senator that helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and planed to fix the California problem
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US Senator
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Daniel Webster
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Massachusetts Senator that supported compromise for sake of the Union
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Supported Compromise
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Senator of Illinois who got the job to write the winning passage
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Wrote Compromise of 1850
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Compromise of 1850
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Became law and many people thought the Union was saved before the tensions began
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"Saved the Union"
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Fugitive Slave Act
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People accused of being fugitives were returned to their slave master
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Put back run away slaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to express her view of slavery after the compromise of 1850
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Author of ....
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Portrayed slavery as bad
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Popular Sovereignty
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Where residents vote to decide an issue
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Voting
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Splitting the Nebraska territories into 2 separate territories and allowed residents to vote if it would be a free state or a slave state
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Splitting Nebraska
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John Brown
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A extreme abolitionist that led an attack known as Pottawatomie Massacre
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Abolitionist Leader
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Republican Party
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A "ashes" of the Northern Whig Party creating the republican party when other opponents of slavery joined
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Opponents of slavery
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John C Frémont
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The choice for the republican parties first presidential candidate in 1856
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Presidential Candidate
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James Buchanan
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The presidential candidate nominated from democrats in 1856
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Presidential candidate
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Dred Scott v. Standford
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When a slave sued after his owners death for freedom because he had lived in territories where slavery was illegal
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Slave Sued for freedom
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