| A | B |
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| Wilmot Proviso | prohibit slavery in all parts of the Mexican Cession |
| Popular Sovereignty | the States or Territories would vote to permit slavery or not. |
| Free Soil Party | feared that slave labor would take white workers jobs |
| Henry Clay | proposed that California enter the Union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850 |
| John C. Calhoun | proposed slave states should separate peacefully from the Union |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Commissioners would get more money for returning slaves to their owners, even if they were free |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a Novel about slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | exposed the reality of slave life |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | divided the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | 5 pro slavery men were killed in Kansas by John Brown |
| Dred Scott vs. Sandford | the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional |
| Freeport Doctrine | the decision to practice slavery in the territories belonged to the people |
| John Brown's Raid | to steal weapons to take to local slaves for an uprising |
| Harper's Ferry Raid | was a failure because no slaves showed up to support John Brown |
| Election of 1860 | showed that the South was losing its political power |
| Democratic Party in 1860 | divided their votes between two candidates and lost |
| sectionalism | favor the interests of their regions over those of the nation as a whole |
| Fugitive Slave Act | took away a slave's right to a trial by jury |
| Republican Party | united several parties together to stop the spread of slavery in new territories |
| Dred Scott | sued for his freedom after living in the free state of Illinois |
| Confederacy | after the election of 1860 many Southern states formed this |
| States that formed the Confederacy | ??? |
| Jefferson Davis | elected President of the Confederacy |
| secession | formally withdrawing from the Union |
| Stephen Douglas | proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act |
| Franklin Pierce | Democratic candidate in the election of 1852 |
| Compromise of 1850 | What did it do????? |
