| A | B |
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| sectionalism | Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country |
| Missouri Compromise | Plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal |
| fugitive | Runaway such as an escaped slave |
| Compromise of 1850 | Agreement over slavery that admitted California to the Union as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., and passed a strict fugitive slave law |
| Fugitive Slave Law 1850 | Law that required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Law that divided Nebraska into two territories. |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the fugitive slave law |
| emancipate | To set free |
| Emancipation Proclamation | President Lincoln's declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy |
| popular sovereignty | Control by the people; allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery |
