Unit 8 Part 1

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Wilmot Proviso

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Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the Mexican American War

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Secession

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Decesion by a state to leave the Union

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Compromise of 1850

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Series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states

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Popular Sovereignty

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Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially regarding slavery

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850

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Millard Fillmore

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13th President after the death of President Zachary Taylor

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them

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Personal Liberty Laws

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laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves

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Underground Railroad

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Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom

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Harriet Tubman

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famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Author of anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there

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John Brown

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Fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed five proslavery people

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Bleeding Kansas

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nickname given to the Kansas Territory because of the bloddy violence there

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Franklin Pierce

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14th president

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Nativism

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Favoring native-born people over immigrants

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Know-Nothing Party

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Political Party formed to stop the influence of immigrants

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Republican Party

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Political Party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories

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Horace Greeley

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Newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly-formed Republican Party

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John C. Fremont

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Republican candidate in the 1856 Presidential election

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James Buchanan

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15th President

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Dred Scott

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Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory

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Roger B. Taney

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Chief Justice who wrote the ruling in the Dred Scott case

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th President. President during the Civil War

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Freeport Doctrine

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Idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it

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Harpers Ferry

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Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves

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Confederacy

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"Confederate States of America," formed in 1861 by the Southern state that seceded from the Union

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate States of America