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Chapter 14

The Nation Divides

DefinitionTerm or name
people rule popular sovereignty
to withdraw secede
runaway fugitive
Great Compromiser Henry Clay
Massachusetts man who argued for Clay's compromise Daniel Webster
South Carolina senator against the compromise John C. Calhoun
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
False or misleading information that is spread to further a cause propaganda
Pushed through the Kansas-Nebraska Act Stephen A. Douglas
Anti-slavery settler in Kansas who led a raid at Pottawatomie Creek John Brown
New Anti-Slavery Party Republican
Enslaved person who sued for freedom in Supreme Court Dred Scott
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 Roger B. Taney
Illinois lawyer who spoke out against the Dred Scott Decision Abraham Lincoln
Location of U.S. Arsenal attacked by John Brown and his followers Harpers Ferry, Virginia
First state to secede South Carolina
First battle of the Civil War Attack on Fort Sumter
Plan to make Mexican Cession free of slavery Wilmot Proviso
Belief that states are more important than the Union States Rights
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