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| Wilmot Proviso | a bill that proposed to ban slavery in the territories |
| Free Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| Henry Clay | a U.S. senator who proposed the Compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | a U.S.senator from Ma.who supported the Compromise of 1850 |
| Stephen A.Douglass | a U.S. senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise of 1850 | effort by Congress to settle the issue of slavery in the territories that arose when California was admitted as a free state |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
| Kansas -Nebraska Act | a law that split the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed people to vote on slavery in these territories |
| popular sovereignty | a system where residents vote to decide an issue |
| John Brown | an extreme abolitionist |
| Republican Party | an antislavery party that began in the 1850's |
| John C.Fremont | a Republican party candidate in the 1856 presidential election |
| James Buchanan | 15th president |
| Dred Scott v.Sanford | a Supreme Court case that extended the rights of slaveholders in the territories |
| Roger B.Taney | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,who wrote the lead opinion in the Dred Scott case |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois Republican candidate for the U.S.Senate in 1858 |
| Harpers Ferry | location of U.S.arsenal in Virginia,which was raided by John Brown |
| platform | a statement of beliefs |
| secede | to formally withdraw from the Union |
| Confederate States of America | a Confederation formed by the seceded Southern states |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Crittenden Plan | a compromise plan to prevent secession |
