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Set #8
Antebellum
definition | term |
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Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States | Dred Scott case |
to legally cancel or invalidate | nullify |
people who wanted to end slavery | abolitionists |
compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act | Compromise of 1850 |
pre-Civil War period in U.S. history | antebellum |
belief that a states' sovereignty (power) is more important than that of the national government | States' Rights |
to add | annex |
supported and accepted the Compromise of 1850, but only if the North followed the Fugitive Slave Act | Georgia Platform |
extreme loyalty given to a particular region in the belief that their ideas and interests must be protected from other regions | sectionalism |
the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent | secession |