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| Missouri would enter the Union as a slave slave state, and Maine would enter as a free state, in order to balance the Senate. |
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| A strong attachment to regional interests. |
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| Those who objected to extending slavery into new territories and states. |
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| DEF~ Underground Railroad |
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| A secret path for slaves to escape to free states, through homes and secret routes. |
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| A plan that admitted California to the Union as a free state, added New Mexico and Utah as slave states, and ended slavery in Washington D.C. |
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| A law that required the return of escaped slaves to their owners. |
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| A novel that detailed the cruelties of slavery. |
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| An act that organized the Great Plains into two territories based on popular sovereignty. |
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| A political party against Fugitive Slave Law and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, made of Anti-slavery activists and free-soilers, led by Stephen Douglas. |
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| A man who lead antislavery activists through violence. |
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| John Browns massacre, which occured in Kansas. |
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| BIG PICTURE~ Missouri Compromise |
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| Banned slavery in Louisiana Territory, but maintained the balance of power in Senate. |
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| BIG PICTURE~ Compromise of 1850 |
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| Angered many Northerners. |
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| BIG PICTURE~ Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| Touched hearts of many Northerners. |
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| BIG PICTURE~ Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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| Opened Kansas and Nebraska to popular sovereignty, which created violence. |
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| BIG PICTURE~ Republican Party |
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| Antislavery and Free-Soiler activists came together. |
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| The 1857 ruling of the Supreme Court in the case Scott v. Sandford that legalized slavery in the territories and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. |
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| DEF~ John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry |
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| A raid led by John Brown, an abolitionist, in 1856 in hopes of seizing the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in order to distribute the weapons to slaves in the area and spark a slave revolt' the attempt failed when federal troops captured the men, leading to Brown's execution for treason. |
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| An Illinois lawyer, who was the Republican nominee, who opposed slavery greatly and won the presidency in 1860. |
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| Abraham Lincoln won the presidency with less than 40% of the vote. |
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