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Compromise of 1850 |
A series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
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Confederate states of America |
The confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the Union
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Crittenden Plan |
A compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession
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Dred Scott Case |
An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled against Scott
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Fugitive Slave Act |
an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
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Harpers Ferry |
A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt
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Kansas Nebraska act |
an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the fight to decide whether to allow slavery
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Abraham Lincoln |
The 16th president
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Pupolar sovereignty |
a government in which the people rule a system in which the residents votet to decide an issue
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Republican Party |
A public party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
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Secede |
to withdraw
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