| A | B |
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| Kansas Nebraska Act | An 1854 act that allowed the people to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery |
| Fire eaters | southerners who actively advocated secession |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a law that required all citizens, North and South, to assist in catching and returning runaway slaves to their owners |
| states rights | rights and powers of the states are more important |
| secession | dissolving a state’s connection to the nation and becoming a separate nation |
| nationalism | the sense of pride in one’s country |
| compromise of 1850 | California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act was passed |
| sectionalism | allegiance to one region of the country |
| productive tariff | a duty on imports that is high enough to protect American manufactured goods |
| Missouri Compromise | allowed Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
| abolitionist | a person who wanted to do away with slavery |
| nullify | to declare a law invalid and of no eff ect |
