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Road to Civil War Vocabulary
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sectionalism | people are more loyal to their state or region than to their country |
popular sovereignty | people should have the right to rule themselves |
secede | to withdraw from a union |
Compromise of 1850 | agreement made which allowed California to become a free state, permitted popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, banned slave trade in Washington, D.C., and passed a strict fugitive slave law |
Fugitive Slave Act | punished people who helped runaway slaves |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | law passed in 1854 which allowed the people of two territories vote to have slavery or not |
Republicans | political party created in 1854 made up of anti-Nebraska groups |
armory | storehouse for weapons |
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