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8th Gr Am His 15
Holt 8th Am His Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| popular sovereignty | the idea that political power belongs to the people |
| Wilmot Proviso | document stating that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory |
| sectionalism | favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country |
| Free Soil Party | a political party which supported the Wilmot Proviso |
| Compromise of 1850 | allowed California to enter the union as a free state |
| Fugitive Slave Act | made it a crime to help runaway slaves & slaves could be arrested in free areas |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | anti slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | plan to divide the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | Brown's group killed five pro slavery men in Kansas |
| Republlican party | political party united against the spread of slavery in the West |
| Freeport Doctrine | police enforcement of voters' decision if it went against the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case |
| John Brown's raid | a group of men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| Constitutional Union party | recognized the political principles of Constituion |
| secession | formal withdrawal from the Union |
| Confederate States of America | the Confederacy |