Social Studies Key Terms

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Compramise of 1850

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was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850

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Fugitive Slave Act

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as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers

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Kansas Nabraska Act

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to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Actserved to repeal the Missouri Compromise

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Popular Sivereugty

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is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.

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bleeding kansas

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Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian"

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Republic Party

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is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States

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Scott V. Sanford

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was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held

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lincon douglas debates

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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois.

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Harpers Ferry

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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt