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Social Studies Test

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Wilmot Proviso   an 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from War with Mexico  
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Free Soil Party   a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery  
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Henry Clay   senator of Kentucky that helped in the making of the Missouri Compromise  
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Daniel Webster   senator from Massachusetts which supported the compromise for the sake of the union  
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Stephen A. Douglas   senator of Illinois that made the best form of the compromise, forming the Compromise of 1850  
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Compromise of 1850   a series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   did not like how the Compromise of 1850 would help slaveholders recapture their runaway slaves  
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin   a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral  
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Fugitive Slave Act   an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves  
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Popular Sovereignty   a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue  
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Kansas-Nebraska Act   an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right whether to allow slavery  
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John Brown   an extreme abolitionist who went to the cabins of several pro slavery neighbors and murdered five people, this attack is known as the Pottawatomie Massacre  
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Republican Party   the political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories  
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John C. Fremont   the republicans nominated him to run for president as a republican, a national hero for his explorations in the West, earned the nickname of “Pathfinder.”  
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James Buchanan   the democrats nominated him to run for president as a democrat, was a minister of Great Britain, had been known in England since 1853 and hadn’t spoken with or against the Kansas-Nebraska Act  
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Dred Scott v. Sandford   an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in the territories where slavery was illegal; the Court ruled against Scott  
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Roger B. Taney   chief justice in Scott’s case, said that Dred Scott was not a U.S. citizen, as a result, could not sue in U.S. courts; said that Scott was bound by Missouri’s slave code; as a result Scott’s free time in territory did not matter in his case  
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Abraham Lincoln   a republican nominated to challenge Douglas for his U.S. Senate seat  
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Harpers Ferry   a federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt  
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Platform   a statement of beliefs  
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Secede   to withdraw  
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Confederate States of America   the confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern States after their secession from the Union  
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Jefferson Davis   named president of the Confederacy  
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Crittenden Plan   a compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession  
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