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Road to Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the country as a whole | SECTIONALISM |
| Control by the people - voters in a new territory would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery in the territory | POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY |
| a runaway slave | FUGITIVE |
| Plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal | MISSOURI COMPROMISE |
| Law that required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves | FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW of 1850 |
| Supreme Court decision in 1857 that stated slaves were property, not citizens | DRED SCOTT DECISION |
| Law that divided Nebraska into 2 territories. Provided for the question of slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty | KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT |