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| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories - Kansas and Nebraska and allow people in each to decide on question of slavery |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | Where John Brown and his men kelled 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | Where abolitionists and pro-slavery forces clashed in Kansas, killing many people |
| Dred Scott | Slave involved in the Missouri Compromise and in the court case that said African Americans were not citizens of the United States |
| Lincoln - Douglas debates | Where Abe Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to debates |
| Freeport Doctrine | Notion that the police would enforce the voters' decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case |
| Republican Party | a political party united against the spread of slavery in the West |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois lawyer warned that a future Court ruling like the Dred Scott decision would prohibit states from banning slavery |
