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15 Cards in this Set
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polital party formed in 1860 by a group of northerns and southerners who supported the union , its law, and the constit constitution
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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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nation formed by the southern states on febuary 4, 1861
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confederate states of america
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political party formed i nthe 1850's to stop the spread of slavery in the west
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republican party
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us supreme court ruling that declared aftican americans were not us citizens
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dred scott decision
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series of 7 debates between republican abraham lincoln and democrat stphan douglas during the 1858 us senate campaign in illinois
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lincoln- douglas debates
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statement made by stephan douglas during the lincoln- douglas debates by pointing out how people could use territory should permit slavery
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freeport doctrine
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plan that would divide the remainder of the louisianna purchase into 2 territories
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kansas- nebraska act
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proposal to outlaw slavery in the Mexican territory added to the us by the mexican cession
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wilmot proviso
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a devotion to the interest of 1 region instead of the country as a whole
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sectionalism
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allow the voter in a territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery
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popular sovereignty
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political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the whig and democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issure
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free-soil party
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agreement proposed by henry clay that allowed cali to enter the union as a free state and divide the rest of the mexican cession into 2 territories where slavery would by decided by popular sovereignty
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compromise of 1850
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law that made dit a crime to help runaway slaves
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fugitive slave act
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antislavery novel written by harriet beecher stowe that showed northerners that violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists cause
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uncle tom's cabin
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