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25 Cards in this Set
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an arms storehouse
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arsenal
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An 1820 agrement by Congress that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state.
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Missouri Compromise
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A political party organized in the 1850's to oppose slavery
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Republican Party
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A bill usually refers to those enacted by local government
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ordinance
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The period before the Civil War
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antebellum
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Actions that deny people their rights because of prejudice
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discrimination
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A farmer who owned less than than 500 acres
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yeoman farmer
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Those states where slavery was permitted
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slave states
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The right of people living in a territory to decide whether they wanted to be a free or a slave state
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popular sovereignty
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An older slave plaaced in charge of other slaves
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driver
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The act of pulling out of the Union
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secession
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A concept in which people in any given area think their ideas and interests are correct and more important than those of any region
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sectionalism
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A network of homes, farms, and churches from the South to the North where runaway slaves could rest and hide from slave catchers
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Underground Railroad
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A person responsible for assigning and supervising the tasks of slaves
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overseer
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A secret political group active in the 1850's that was anti-immigration and anti-Catholic
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Know Nothing Party
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People who worked to abolish slavery
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abolitionists
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A person who was against slavery being extended into western territories
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free soilers
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Those states where slavery was not allowed
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free state
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The name of the government formed by the southern states in 1861 when the seceded from the Union
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Confederates States of America
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The idea that the powers not given to the federal government in the Constitution belong to each state
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states rights
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The position one group has in relation to others
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calss structure
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A set of laws that defined the socal, economic, physical limitations placed on slaves
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slave codes
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A statement of the policies that a politcal party supports
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platform
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A law passed in 1854 by which Kansas and Nebraska were made territories and allowed to decide upon the issue of slavery for themselves
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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A proposal introduced by Henry Clay by which California was admitted as a free state and the slace trade was banned in the District of Columbia
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Compromise of 1850
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