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| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 |
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| declared that all citizens must help capture fugitive slaves |
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| Resulted in the number of slave states and free states remaining equal |
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| Proposal that would have banned all slavery in the western territories |
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| author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| Republican presidential candidatein 1860 |
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| President of the Confederate States of America |
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| Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery in a territory |
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| runaway, such as an escaped slave in the 1800's |
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| Slavery was an important issue in these 7 debates |
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| control by the people; voters decide whether or not to have slavery |
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| agreement over slavery that admitted California to the US as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., and passed a strict fugitive slave law. |
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| war between people of the same country |
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| Political party founded in 1848 whose goal was to stop the spread of slavery |
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| Abolitionist who tried to lead a slave revolt in the South |
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| Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the nation as a whole; grew as the issue of slavery heated up |
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| undid the Missouri Compromise; slavery would be decided in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories by popular sovereignty |
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| proslavery bands from Misssouri who battled antislavery forces in Kansas |
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| Illinois senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
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