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Missouri Compromise Agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave states and free states equal.
Stephen Douglass Senator, introduced the bill to set up a government for the Nebraska Territory.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Published the novel called "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Border Ruffians Proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas.
Dred Scott Slave who caused many problems when his owner moved to a free territory.
Republican Party Political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
John Breckenridge Ran as a Southern Democrat in Election of 1860.
Jefferson Davis U.S. senator from Mississippi later became senator of war.
Wilmot Proviso Law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico.
Compromise of 1850 Agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin A powerful story written by a white woman about a slave's life.
John Brown An abolitionist, decided to strike back. He claimed that God had sent him to punish supporters of slavery.
Dred Scott Decision An 1857 Suprime Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories.
John C. Fremont Ran with the Republican party in 1856.
John Bell Ran with the Constitutional Union party in 1860.
Fort Sumter The beginning of the war in 1861. The Confederates captured it.
Free Soil Party Bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories.
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves.
Kansas-Nebraska Act An 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right to Popular Sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
Bleeding Kansas A band of proslavery men raided the town of Lawrence, an antislavery stronghold, in 1856.
James Buchanan "northern man with southern principles" ran against Fremont.
John Crittenden Proposed a bill in 1860 that extended the area of the Missouri compromise to the pacific ocean.
Zachary Taylor Won election of 1848, the first election where slavery mattered.
Franklin Pierce President in 1850 that supported the Kansas-Neraska Act.
Charles Summer The leading abolitionist senator.
Abraham Lincoln Republican from Illinois. Ran in the election of 1860.
Confederate states of America The "new nation" formed by the Confederation during the civil war.
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