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| Compromise of 1850 | admitted California to the Union and allowed for a new Fugitive Slave Act |
| popular soverignty | idea that each new state or territory should be allowed to decide the slavery question by vote |
| secession | formal withdrawl of a state from the Union |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Illinois politician who favored popular sovereignty, sponsored the passage of the Kansas/Nebraska Act |
| Fugitive Slave Act | federal law that allowed the pursuit of runaway slaves into any part of the country, even free states |
| Underground Railroad | network of people who aided the escape of runaway slaves |
| Harriet Tubman | famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that aroused the nation about the slavery issue |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Pottawatomie Creek Massacre | Murder of five men by John Brown and anti-slavery forces in Kansas in 1856 |
| Bleeding Kansas | describes the violence between pro-slavery forces and abolitonists in Kansas in the days before the Civil War |
| Republican Party | formed in 1854, it became the leading abolitionist party |
| Dred Scott | sued for his freedom, claiming he had become a free person by living in free territory for several years |
| Abraham Lincoln | elected president in 1860 as the Republican party's candidate |
| Harper's Ferry | site of John Brown's attempt to steal weapons and incite a slave revolt in 1859 |
| Election of 1860 | convinced southern states to leave the union |
| Confederacy | Confederate States of America formed by southern states after the election of 1860 |
| Dred Scott decision | said that neither slaves nor freed slaves were citizens and held that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Allowed popular sovereignty in the remaining parts of the Louisiana Territory |
| Missouri Compromise | Allowed 1 free state and 1 slave state into the Union at the same time. |
| Mexican Cession | The U.S. won this piece of land in the Mexican War. |
| Democratic Party | Split over the issue of slavery |
