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| Dred Scot Decision | a supreme court decision that said slavery could not be banned in any territory |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Fugitive Slave Law | a law that said escaped slaves who got to free territory still were not free and anyone who helped an escaping slave could be fined for jailed |
| Confederate States of America | name of the South after they seceded from the Union |
| Free Soil Party | in the election of 1848 this party was formed by antislavery forces who also wanted free land |
| Platform | a political party’s statement of beliefs |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | book that made Americans aware of the brutality of slavery |
| Kansas,territory | where bloody battles broke out between proslavery and antislavery factions it was called Bleeding ________ |
| John Brown | who led antislavery raids in Kansas and Harper’s Ferry and was hung |
| Stephan Douglas | candidate who supported popular sovereignty |
| Republican Party | the political party that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president |
| Abraham Lincoln | hated slavery but was not an abolitionist and said he would not do away with slavery where it existed he just didn’t want it to spread |
| Popular Sovereignty | the right of voters in each territory to decide whether to allow slavery |
| John Calhoun | a speaker from Congress who urged southern states not to compromise |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Washington D.C | where slaves could be owned but not sold |
| Compromise of 1850 | the plan that brought California in as a free state and set a plan for slavery in new territories and enacted the Fugitive Slave Law |
| Harper’s Ferry Virginia | the place where John Brown tried to arm the slaves with weapons and start a revolution |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the Union |
| Fort Sumter | where the first shot was fired in the Civil War |
