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| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section, rather than the country as a whole |
| popular sovereignty | control by the people; usually in reference to allowing the public to vote on a decision |
| secede | to remove |
| fugitive | runaway |
| Missouri Compromise | called for an imaginary line to be drawn across southern border of Missouri; anything south of the line in the Louisiana Purchase allowed slavery, anything north of the line banned slavery |
| Free Soil Party | antislavery Whigs and Democrats whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| Zachary Taylor | a hero of the Mexican War who was elected to the presidential office in 1848 |
| Millard Fillmore | a Whig who takes office in 1850 after the death of Taylor |
| Compromise of 1850 | had five parts: 1) allowed CA to enter as a free state; 2) divided rest of Mexican Cession into New Mexico & Utah territories, where slavery would be decided by pop. sovereignty; 3) ended slave trade in D.C.; 4) fugitive slave law; 5) settled border between TX and NM |
| Henry Clay | responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
| Stephen Douglas | carried on Clay's work when he became too ill; responsible for Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| John C. Calhoun | opposed Henry Clay's ideas; strong supporter of the South |
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves by imposing jail time or heavy fines; set up a special court system to deal with runaway slaves |
| guerrilla warfare | the use of hit-and-run tactics |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | would divide Nebraska Territory into two territories (Kansas and Nebraska); settlers living there would decide slavery issue by pop. sovereignty |
| civil war | a war between sections or regions of the same country |
| Border Ruffians | proslavery gangs from Missouri who rode across the border into Kansas |
| John Brown | an abolitionist who resorted to violence to "punish supporters of slavery" |
| Dred Scott | a former slave who came before the Supreme Court for his freedom, only to be told he was not a citizen |
| arsenal | a storage house for guns/weapons |
| martyr | one who is willing to give up his/her life for his/her beliefs |
| Republican Party | a party composed of Free Soilers, northern Democrats, and antislavery Whigs who wished to keep slavery out of the territories |
| James Buchanan | a Democrat elected for the presidential office in 1856 |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the Union |
| Confederate States of America | the new nation formed by the Southern states that seceded |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican; winner of the election of 1860, and president during the Civil War |
