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| popular sovereignty | the idea that political authority belongs to the people |
| Wilmont Proviso | offered a document stating that servitud shall ever exist |
| sectionalism | a devotion to the interests of one geographic section over the interests of the country |
| Free-Soil Party | a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery notherners who left the Wig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue |
| secede | to formally withdraw from the Union |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California ro enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty |
| Fugitive Slave Act | (1850)a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in sreas where slavery was illegal,and required their return to slaveholders |
| Anthony Burns | a fugitive slave from Virginia was arrested in Boston |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | (1852)an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people the abolitionists'cause |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | a novel writter,spoke out powerfully against slavery |
| Franklin Pierce | a little-known politician from New Hampshire |
| Stephen Douglas | 1840s had supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | (1854)a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allowed slavery |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | (1856) an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans |
| Charles Summer | Senator of Massachusetts criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas |
| Preston Brooks | Representative a relative of Buttler's responded strongly |
| Republican Party | a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West |
| James Buchanan | of Pennsylvania had a great deal of political experience as Polk's secretary of state |
| John C. Fremont | He had very little experience |
| Dred Scott | the complex case involving an enslaved man |
| Roger B.Taney | Chief Justice himself from a slaveholding family |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois lawyer |
| Lincoln-Douglas debates | Lincoln challenged Douglas |
| Freeport Doctrine | (1858)a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery |
| John Brown's raid | his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry,Virginia |
| John C. Breckinridge | of Kuntucky,who supported slavery in the territories |
| Constitutional Union Party | a political party formed in 1860 by a group of northerners and southernes who supported the Union,its laws,and the Constitution |
| John Bell | was a slave holder |
| John J.Crittenden | proposed a series of constitutional amendment |
| Confederate States of America | the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union;also known as the Confederacy |
| Jefferson Davis | of Mississippi as president of the Confederacy |
