Chapter 15-A Divided Nation

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popular sovereignty

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allowed voters in a territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or allow slavery

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sectionalsm

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loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

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fugitive slave act

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made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves

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crittenden compromise

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protecting the institution of slavery through constitutional amendments

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constitutional union party

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political party in the US in 1860

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free-soil party

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supporters of the wilmot proviso

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republican party

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political unrest led Whigs, some democrats, free-soldiers, and abolitionist join and form

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freeport doctrine

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when slavery could be excluded from territories in the US

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Pottawatomie massacre

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killed 5 pro slavery men

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secession

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the act of formally withdrawing from a union

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote a powerful anti slaver novel

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john brown

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planned a raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers ferry Virginia

also hoped to get weapons and give to slaves

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Jefferson Davis

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American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi

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Stephen Douglas

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supported building a railroad to the pacific

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"Bleeding Kansas"

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Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861, including "Bleeding Congress".

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Frederick Douglas

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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Dred Scott

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a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves

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Compromise of 1850

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a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–48)

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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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divide the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories

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Franklin Pierce

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politician from New Hampshire

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Roger Taney

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5th chief justice of the supreme court

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Henry Clay

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a towering figure in American politics in the middle part of the 19th century, a presidential aspirant whose political skills earned him the nickname "The Great Compromiser."

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Lewis Cass

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american military officer

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Martin Van Buren

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american politician, also 8th president

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David Wilmot

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elected to the US congress

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John Bell

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American politician, attorney, and planter