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| Henry Clay | Member of Congress who negotiated the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 |
| Stephen Douglas | Senator who helped pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| John C. Calhoun | VP who espoused a belief in nullification |
| Nullification | the "right" of states to not follow a national law |
| Sectionalism | a situation in which different regions of the country have drastically different views on important issues |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that allowed western territories to vote on whether slavery would be legal or not in their territory |
| Missouri Compromise | 1 new free state, 1 new slave state; Congress says southern territories will allow slavery, but northern territories will not |
| 36, 30 line | the dividing line between free territories and slave territories according to the Missouri Compromise |
| Compromise of 1850 | California would be a free state; Fugitive Slave Act; popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah |
