History Chapter 16
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| arsenal | place where guns are stored
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| border ruffians | proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled anti-slavery forces in Kansas
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| compromise of 1850 | let California enter as free
divide rest of Mexico Cession into Utah & New Mexico Terri.
ended slave trade in D.C.
settled border dispute between Texas & New Mexico
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| dred scott vs. standford | an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
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| free-soiler party | bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories
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| fugitive | runaway
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| fugitive slave act | required all citizens to catch runaway slaves
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| guerrilla warfare | the use of hit-and-run tactics
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| missouri compmise | agreement proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave states and free states equal
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| willmont proviso | law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the USA from Mexico
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| popular sovereignty | in the mid-1800's a term referring to the idea that each territory should decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery
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| secede | to leave or withdraw
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| civil war | a war between people of the same country
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| uncle tom's cabin | a novel to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Save Act
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| kansas-nebraska act | an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery
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| lawsuit | legal case brought to settle a dispute between a person or group
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| republican party | political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories
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| treason | actions against one's country
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| martyr | a person who dies for his or her beliefs
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