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| Border ruffians | proslavery people who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas |
| Lawsuit | legal case brought to settle a dispute between a person or group |
| guerilla warfare | practice of hit and run |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 law which established the terrotories of Kansas and Nebraska-gave them popular sovereignty to decide on slavery |
| treason | actions against one's country |
| Republican Party | political party established in 1854--keep slavery out of western territories |
| martyr | person willing to die for his or her beliefs |
| arsenal | place where guns and weapons are stored |
| Dred Scott vs. Sandford | Supreme Court case which decided that Scot was a slave, not a citizen-he was property |
| Civil War | a war between the North and South (slavery was big issue) |
| fugitive | a runaway (as a runaway slave) |
| Compromise of 1850 | California joins Union as a free state; Fugitive Slave law passed |
| Missouri Compromise | Henry Clay proposed that number of free and slave states would stay equal |
| Free-Soil Pary | anti-slavery party founded in 1848 to keep slavery out of western territories |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | novel by Harriet Beecher Stove written to show evils of slavery |
| Wilmot Proviso | law that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico |
| Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 law that said all American citizens must help capture runaway slaves |
| secede | withdraw from organization, country, or political party |
| popular sovereignty | each territory could decided for itself whether to be a free or slave state |
