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History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Popular sovereignty | the idea that people in a territory or state vote to decide if slavery should be allowed there. |
| Free Soil Party | Party against spreading slavery west |
| Underground Railroad | Secret routes helping enslaved people escape. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Laws trying to balance free and slave states |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Escaped enslaved people had to be returned |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery. |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Bleeding Kansas | Fighting over slavery in Kansas |
| Lecompton Constitution | Pro-slavery plan for Kansas |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Court case saying Congress couldn’t ban slavery in territories. |
| Lincoln-Douglas debates | Debates about slavery between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. |
| Freeport Doctrine | Territories could block slavery by not supporting it |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who used violence against slavery. |
| Harpers Ferry raid | John Brown attacked a weapons arsenal |
| 1860 election | Abraham Lincoln won president. |
| Secession | Southern states left the Union |