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Vocabulary 15

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Sectionalism   Division of a nation by regions, each region is more concerned with the issues of its region than the whole nation.  
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Free Soil Party   Formed in the 1840s, was opposed to the expansion of slavery, led to the creation off the Republican Party.  
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Henry Clay   created the compromise of 1850, known as the "Great compromiser"  
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Stephen A. Douglas   Democratic senator from Illinois, ran against Lincoln for senate in 1858, creator of the Kansas-Nebraska act, ran against Lincoln for president in 1860.  
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Compromise of 1850   Created when California wanted to become a free state, (1) California a free state, (2)Slave trade abolished in Washington, D.C.,(3) Stronger fugitive slave law, (4) slavery would not be limited in the Mexican cession  
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Fugitive Slave Act   Citizens were now required to turn in all suspected runaway slave, more northerners became abolitionists  
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Uncle Toms Cabin   Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was fictional story of a slave life, convinced many in the north of the evils of slavery  
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Kansas-Nebraska Act   Allowed each territory's populations to vote on whether to enter the u.s. as either a free or slave state  
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John Brown   radical abolitionist, led raids on pro-slavery towns in Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry  
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"Bleeding Kansas"   Period before the vote on slavery in Kansas, characterized by violence by both pro slavery and anti- slavery.  
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Raid on Harper's Ferry   led by brown, attempt to capture weapons in a federal arsenal(weapons storage) in order to supply guns to uprising slave, Brown and followers were captured and executed.  
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Republican party   Formed from other anti- slavery parties, platform(basic beliefs) was based on limiting the spread of slavery into new territories, popular in the north, created in the north,created in the 1850s  
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Dred Scott v. Sanford   Supreme court case in which scott,a slave, sued for his freedom based on the fact he had lived in a territory that prohibted slavery, (1) the supreme court ruled that scott had no right to sue because he was a slave. (2) Congress did not have the right to  
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Abraham Lincoln   16th president, member of the republican party, his election spurred southern stated to secede  
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates   For 1858 Illinois senate race , defined the arguments on both sides of the slavery issue  
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Democratic party   Supported the spread of slavery in the 1850s, popular in the south  
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Secession   to withdraw from a nation  
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Confederate States of America   A union of the states that secede from the U.S. prior to the civil war  
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Jefferson Davis   President of the Confederate states of america  
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Border States   Missouri, Delaware, Kentucky and Maryland, these states had slavery but chose to not secede during civil war  
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