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| A bill that proposed to ban slavery in many territories |
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| A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
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| U.S senator from Kentucky who proposed the Compromise of 1850 |
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| U.S senator from Massachusetts who supported the compromise of 1850 |
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| Effort by Congress to settle the issue of slavery in the territories that arose when California was admitted as a free state |
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| Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| Law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
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| A system where residents vote to decide an issure |
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| Law that spilt the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories |
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| Antislavery political party that formed in the 1850 |
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| Republican Party candidate in the 1856 presidential election |
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| Court case that extended the rights of slaveholders and limited legal efforts to challenge slavery |
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| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who wrote the lead opinion in the Dred Scott case |
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| Illinois Republican candidate for the U.S Senate in 1858 |
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| Location of U.S arsenal in Virginia, which was raided by John Brown |
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| To formally withdraw from the Union |
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| Confederate States of America |
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| Confederation formed by the seceded Southern states |
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| President of the Confederacy |
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| Compromise plan to prevent secession |
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