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Wilmot Provisio   It outlawed slavery in any territory the U.S might aquire from the war with mexico  
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Free-soil Party   A political group dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery  
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Henry Clay   Helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820/ senator form Kentucky  
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Daniel Webster   Supported the compromise for the sake of the union  
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Stephen A. Douglass   Made the compromise of 1850  
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Compromise of 1850   It settled disagreements between slave and free states  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   She was a writer and was angry about the part of the compromise of 1850 that helped slave holders recapture run away slaves  
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Uncle Toms Cabin   a novel about how slavery is immoral written by Harriet b. Stowe  
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Fugitive Slave Act   the part of the compromise of 1850 that helped slave holders recapture runaway slaves  
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PopularSovereignty   The people rule-the people vote to decide on an issue  
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Kansas-Nebraska Act   Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and whether their a slave state or free state  
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John Brown   an extreme Abolitionist  
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Republican Party   A group of people in 1854 that opposed slavery in the territories  
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John C. Fremont   A national hero who explored the west they called him the "Pathfinder"  
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James Buchanan   Democrats chose him to run for presidency and he was from Great britain  
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Dred Scott V. Sandford   Scott a slave sued for his freedom when his owner died but did not get it  
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Roger B. Taney   The chief Justice in Scott's case  
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Abraham Lincoln   Challenged Douglass for his U.S senate seat  
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Harpers Ferry   A federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured  
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Platform   A statement of belifes  
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Secede   To withdrawl  
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Confederate States of Smerica   The confederation formed by the southern states after their secssion  
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Jefferson Davis   President of the confederacy  
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Crittenden Plan   A compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession  
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