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Fugitive Slave Act |
Definition: made it a crime to help runaways slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas. Context: This act was passed in the Compromise of 1850 and it outraged many northerners because they did like idea of a trail with out a jury, uncomfortable with the commissioners' power, and didn't like that some free African Americans had been captured and sent south. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Definition: antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Context: Stowe wrote because in Ohio she met fugitive slaves and learned about the cruelties of slavery and wrote to educate others. The book's protagonist is a slave named Tom who was beaten to death. |
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Poplar Sovereignty |
Definition: the idea that political power belongs to the people. Context: It was bing debated by the senate if the Mexican Cession should have poplar sovereignty or the power to decide whether or not to be a free state or should the senate just decide for them. |
