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| States Rights | The idea that states were Independent and could control things inside their border. |
| Reasons for the Mexican American War. | Texas winning its independence from Mexico and being annexed into the United States. Mexico's refusal to sell land to the U.S., and the dispute over the border between Mexico and U,S, |
| Wilmot Provisio | Proposal that banned slavery from any land acquired from Mexico. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Act that said that Northerners were required to return escaped slaves to their masters in the South. |
| Seceding | Term that means to leave the union. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Act that allowed California to come in as a free state but left the rest of the Mexican succession to be decided by popular soverginty |
| Popular Soverginty | term that means people rule. The idea that weather a state is a slave or free state is a result of the voters decision. People are the source of all government power. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Act that allowed Popular sovereignty to decide whether or not the territories would come into the union as a free or slave state. |
| Missouri Compromise | To pass the Kansas Nebraska Act Congress had to repeal what Act? |
| Border Ruffians | Armed pro slavery men that rushed into Kansas to vote for Kansas to be admitted as a slave state. |
| Civil War | A war between Citizens of the same country. |
| Dred Scott | African American slave that sued for his freedom because when he traveled with his master he entered free states. |
| Property | Judge Taney of the Supreme Court said that Dred Scott could not sue because he was _________. |
| Stephen Douglass | Person that ran against Lincoln in 1856 and 1860 (President) |
| Notariety | The Lincoln Douglass debate gave Lincoln national ____________. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist that tried to lead a slave uprising but was captured |
| Arsenal | A place where the government keeps its gun and other armament. |
| Martyr | a person who dies for a cause |
| Lincoln | The winner of the Presidential election of 1860. |
| Secession | To withdraw from the union. |
| Preserve the Union | Lincoln's goal as president |
| Border States | Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia |
| True | True or False Lincoln believed that Southern States had no right to secede from the Union. |
| Fort Sumter | Union Fort taken in the first shots of the Civil War. |
| Harper's Ferry | Site of the attack of John Brown add his followers on a federal arsenal |
| Bleeding Kansas | Name given to Kansas as a result of all the violence there between pro and anti slavery forces because of popular sovereignty |
