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Vocabulary 15

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show 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   show
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Henry Clay   show
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show 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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show 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   show
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show 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   show
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show radical abolitionist, led raids on pro-slavery towns in Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry  
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show Period before the vote on slavery in Kansas, characterized by violence by both pro slavery and anti- slavery.  
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show 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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show 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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show 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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show 16th president, member of the republican party, his election spurred southern stated to secede  
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show For 1858 Illinois senate race , defined the arguments on both sides of the slavery issue  
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show Supported the spread of slavery in the 1850s, popular in the south  
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Secession   show
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show A union of the states that secede from the U.S. prior to the civil war  
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Jefferson Davis   show
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Border States   show
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