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| Sectionalism | People favoring the interests of section rather than the whole country. |
| Popular sovreignty | Allowing the voters in a territory decide if they wanted slavery. |
| The comprmise of 1850 | compromise that brings California into the union as a free state. |
| Daniel Webster | Massachusetts senator whose greatest concern was to keep the union together. |
| Fugitive slave act | Law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves. |
| Uncle Toms cabin | Book written by Harriet Beecher stowe that chaged american perception of slavery. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Plan that spilt the Lousisian Purchase into two territories.Popular sovereignty would decide the question of slaver. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Nickname given to Kansas due to violence as a result of ''popular sovereignty'' |
| Republican Party | New political party that formed in 1854 in oppositionto slavery. |
| Dredd Scott | A slave that sued for his freedom because he had lived in free territory. |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator who debates Lincoln on ''Popular Sovereignt'' |
| John brown | An abolitionist who led a slave revolt a harpers ferry,Virginia |
| Abraham Lincoln | HE won the Election of 1860 without being on the ballot in the sothern states. |
| Secession | The sothern states officially leave the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | The first and only president og the Confederate states of America. |
| Ft sumter | The opening battle of the civil war begins here in April,1861 |
