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vocabchapter5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| free states | state that did not permit slavery |
| tariff | tax on imports designed to keep out foreign competition |
| popular sovereighty | term used for "a vote by those living there" |
| secession | "withdrawal from the union" |
| emancipation proclamation | the document issued by president lincoln declaring all slaves owned by persons in the confederacy were to be freed as of january 1, 1863 |
| republican PARTY | was the political party fromed in racine, wisconsin, to oppose the expansion of slavery |
| states' right | principle that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government |
| missouri compromise | maine as a free state and missouri as a slave state, and forbade the lands of the louisana purchase north of the 36 30 parallel for being carved into slave states |
| nullify | "to prevent the enforcement of" |
| ms colonization society | the society which supported the emancipation of the slaves and their removal to africa |
| two capital | montgomery; richmond |