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Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Border ruffians | people from Missouri that crossed the border to vote for slavery. |
| secession | withdraw or leave |
| states rights | the rights that states have |
| martyr | someone who dies for a cause |
| arsenal | a place that stores weapons |
| popular sovereignty | the law where the states vote if they want slavery or not. |
| civil war | a war where a country literally fights itself |
| abstain | refrain or stop doing |
| secede | leave |
| fugitive | someone who left because of war |
| sectionalism | the loyalty to a certain area |
| Henry Clay | Perposed Missiuori compromise |
| Wilmot Proviso | Specified Slavery should be banned in any land abtaned from Mexico |
| David Wilmot | Perposed Proviso |
| John C Calhoun | said government should have no say to ban slavery |
| Zach Taylor | War hero and Whig canadate for 1848 and winner of that election |
| Martin Van Buran | Canidate for free soil party in 1848 |
| Daniel Webster | apposed Henrys plan to secede if california was admitted as a free state |
| Millord Fillmore | Know Nothing canidate of 1856 |