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| Wilmot Proviso | 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico |
| James Buchanan | 1856 Democratic Presidential Candidate who went on to become the only Pa. President in U.S. history |
| Free-Soil Party | political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator who backed the Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise of 1850 | series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states |
| Califronia would be admitted as a fre state; slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.; Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won by Mexico; Congress would pass a stronger law to help slaveholders | 4 terms of the Compromise of 1850 |
| Robert E. Lee. | commander of the Marines who killed or captured the raiders at Harper's Ferry |
| Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author outraged by the Fugitive Slave Act and as a result wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| popular sovereignty would be used to determine whether a territory is free or slave; organized Nebraska Territory into Nebraska and Kansas | terms of the Kansas Act |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the cruelty and immorality of slavery. |
| popular sovereignty | system that allows residents to vote to decide an issue |
| Republican Party | political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery. |
| John C. Fremont | Republican presidential candidate in 1856 (know as the Pathfinder) |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | 1856 Supreme Court Case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom; Scott lost and the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional |
| Roger B. Taney | Supreme Court justice who wrote the majority opinion in Cred Scott case |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois republican who ran against Stephen Douglas in 1858 and also had 7 debates with Douglas |
| Harpers Ferry | federal arsenal in Virginia; captured in 1859 during John Brown's raid which was an antislavery revolt |
| Whig Party | political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson |
| Know-Nothing Party | anti-immigrant party formed in the 1850s |
| Lincoln, Republican; Douglas, N. Democrat; Breckinridge, S. Democrat; Bell - Constitutional Union | 4 candidates in the Election of 1860 and their parties |
| Abraham Lincoln | won the election of 1860 |
| South Carolina | first southern state to secede |
| Confederate States of America | name of the South's new nation |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| states rights were honored and slavery was legal | 2 ways in which the Confederacy's Constitution differed from the U.S. Constitution |
| platform | statement of beliefs |
| secede | withdraw |
| states' rights | idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule |
| Crittenden's Compromise | compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession |
