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16 Cards in this Set
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the idea that political power belongs to the people
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popular sovereignty
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a document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exists in any part of the territory"
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Wilmot Proviso
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favoring the interest of one section or region over the interest of the entire country
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sectionalism
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a political party formed by anti-slavery northerners who supported the Wilmot Proviso
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Free-Soil Party
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a proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divide the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
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Compromise of 1850
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a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas
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Fugitive Slave Act
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an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher; it showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew mant people to the abolitionists cause
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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a plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories and would allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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an incident in which John Brown and his men killed five pro slavery men in Kansas
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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a political party united against the spread of slavery in the West
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Republican Party
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a series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in the 1858 U.S. senate campaign in Illinois
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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notion that the police would enforce the voters' decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case
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Freeport Doctrine
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an incident in which John Brown and his men took over the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion
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John Brown's Raid
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a political party that recognized, "no political principles other than the Constitution of the Country, the Union of the states, and the enforcement of the laws"
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Constitutional Union Party
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the act of formally withdrawing from the Union
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secession
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the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also know as the Confederacy
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Confederate States of America
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