| A | B |
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| Sectionalism | When one region is favored over the country as a whole |
| Popular Sovereignty | principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether to ban or permit slavery |
| Wilmot Proviso | Proposal to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession |
| Free-Soil Party | Political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue |
| Henry Clay | The Great Compromiser |
| Daniel Webster | Opposed to slavery but in favor of Clay's plan because perserving the Union was more important than any regional differences |
| Compromise of 1850 | California entered the Union as a free state, fugitive slave law passed and agreement to allow slavery in the territories by popular soverienty |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Allowed fugitive slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Powerful anti-slavery novel |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Dred Scott Decision | Ruled that slaves could not bring cases to court because they were not citizens |
| Secession | Act of formally withdrawing from a country |
