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VA US 7.1

VA US Vocabulary 7.1

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Wilmot Proviso the proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War.
Free-Soil Party an antislavery political party in the mid-1800s
popular sovereignty a principle in which the people are the only source of government power
secede to withdrawl formally from a membership in a group or an organization
Compromise of 1850 a political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law.
Fugutive Slave Act a law that requires all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves; a part of the compromise of 1850
personal liberty laws the laws enacted by northern states to counteract the Fugitive Slave Act by granting rights to escaped slaves and free African Americans
Underground Railroad a system that existed before the Civil War in which African American and white abolitionists helped escaped slaves travel to safe areas in the North and in Canada.
Harriet Tubman Born into slavery in Maryland; escaped and traveled to Philadelphia and became a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of enslaved people, including her parents and siblings, to freedome in the north.
Harriet Beecher Stowe an American writer and abolitionist best known for her antislavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in 1852.
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