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History Chapter 16
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arsenal | place where guns are stored |
| border ruffians | proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled anti-slavery forces in Kansas |
| compromise of 1850 | let California enter as free divide rest of Mexico Cession into Utah & New Mexico Terri. ended slave trade in D.C. settled border dispute between Texas & New Mexico |
| dred scott vs. standford | an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories |
| free-soiler party | bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| fugitive | runaway |
| fugitive slave act | required all citizens to catch runaway slaves |
| guerrilla warfare | the use of hit-and-run tactics |
| missouri compmise | agreement proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave states and free states equal |
| willmont proviso | law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the USA from Mexico |
| popular sovereignty | in the mid-1800's a term referring to the idea that each territory should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery |
| secede | to leave or withdraw |
| civil war | a war between people of the same country |
| uncle tom's cabin | a novel to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Save Act |
| kansas-nebraska act | an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery |
| lawsuit | legal case brought to settle a dispute between a person or group |
| republican party | political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories |
| treason | actions against one's country |
| martyr | a person who dies for his or her beliefs |