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| Dred Scott decision | According to the ___, Congress could not forbid slavery in any territory because it would interfere with a slaveholder's right to own property. |
| Underground Railroad | secret escape route |
| John Brown | The actions of ___ at Pottawatomie Creek triggered dozens of violent incidents and led to Bleeding Kansas. |
| Compromise of 1850 | The ___ allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state and allowed voters in the Utah and New Mexico territories to decide about slavery. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed people to vote whether the state should be free or slave |
| nativism | ___ was based on feelings of mistrust directed toward the increasing number of immigrants and Catholics. |
| personal liberty laws | Nine Northern states passed ___ forbidding the imprisonment of runaway slaves. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | very graphic book written about slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Free Soilers | Northerners who objected to slavery's impact on free white workers were called ___. |
| Wilmot Proviso | The ___ proposed prohibiting slavery in California and other territories acquired from Mexico. |
| popular sovereignty | According to ___, the residents of a territory had the right to vote for or against slavery. |
| secession | leaving the Union |
| Republican Party | The ___, formed in Wisconsin in 1854, nominated Abraham Lincoln as its first presidential candidate. |
