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10 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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political party founded in 1848 by th antislavery Whigs an Democrats
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Sectionalism
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loyality to state or section rater than to the country
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Mussouri Compromise
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plan proposed by Henry Clay that would keep the number of slave states and free states equal
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Wilmont Proviso
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proposed law that would ban slavery in all lands won from mexico
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Popular Soverrignty
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polciy that would allow a terrotory to decide for itself wheter it want to be a free state or a slave state
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Civil War
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a war between people of thae same country
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Fugitive
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a runaway slave
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Henry Clay
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a famous senator who brought together the Great Compromise
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John C. Calhoun
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refused to compromise insisted that slavery should be allowed in western territores and fugitive slaves to be returned
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Daneil Webster
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supported Clay's plea to save the union
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