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| Free Soil Party | political party made up of anti-slavery whigs and democrats - wanted to stop the spread of slavery |
| Republican Party | political party made up of free soilers, northern Democrats, and anti-slavery whigs - goal was to keep slavery out of the Western territories |
| Stephen Douglas | Democratic candidate who ran against Lincoln in Illinois race for Senate and again in race for President in 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican candidate for President in 1860 - wanted to stop spread of slavery |
| Missouri Compromise | negotiated by Henry Clay - Maine added as free state, Missouri as slave state - drew line across southern border of Missouri |
| Compromise of 1850 | negotiated by Henry Clay - settled issue of adding California as a free state - study 4 conditions |
| Fugitive Slave Law | part of Compromise of 1850 - it is the job of all citizens to help catch escaped slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | "the little woman who caused the great war" - wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book written to show people the evils of slavery - caused many people to become abolitionists |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | ruling by the US Senate that the issue of slavery would be decided by Popular Sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska - repealed Missouri Compromise |
| Bleeding Kansas | the nickname for the violence that erupted in Kansas when popular sovereignty took effect |
| Charles Sumner | Senator who was beaten by Preston Brooks on the floor of the US Senate for a speech he had given |
| Dred Scott Case | Supreme Court ruling that slaves were property and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it outlawed slavery in some of the territories |
| John Brown | man who planned to raid a military arsenal hoping to start a slave rebellion |
| Harpers Ferry | military arsenal raided by John Brown |
| Border Ruffians | proslavery bands from Missouri that battled antislavery forces in Kansas |
| Jefferson Davis | first president of the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | one of the last forts the Union held in Confederate territory, guarded the Charleston Harbor - first battle took place there |
| Confederacy | the name for the Southern states that had seceded and joined forces against the North |
| Wilmot Proviso | a law to ban slavery in any lands won in the Mexican War, never happened |
| Henry Clay | the great compromisor - Missouri Compromise, Compromise Tariff of 1833, Compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | spoke for North, peaceable secession is an utter impossibility |
| John C. Calhoun | spoke for South, let the states we both represent separate and part in peace |
| Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln is elected and South Carolina secedes followed by several other states |
