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| Wilmot Proviso | representative of pennsylvania proposed to outlaw slavery in any territory the US might acquire from the US
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| Free-Soil Party | a political party dedicated to stopping slavery
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| Henry Clay | Created a plan to help settle the californis problem
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| Daniel Webster | a senator of massachusetts that supported the compromise by Clay
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| Stephen A. Douglas | senator of illinois who helped make the compromise of 1850 a law
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| Compromise of 1850 | a compromise that helped the north make california a free state and congress could not govern whether slavery was in the territories won and helped recapture runaway slaves
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | a woman who was angered by the Compromise of 1850 and wrote uncle tom's cabin
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral and written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| Fugitive Slave Act | the 1850 law that helped slaveowners recapture their runaway slaves
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| popular soveignty | a system where the residents vote to decide an issue
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act | an 1854 law that had Kansas and Nebraska's residents choose whether or not thay wanted slavery
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| John Brown | an extreme abolitionist who went and killed five people to avenge Sack of Lawrence
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| Republican Party | the Northern Whigs joined with opponents of slavery
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| John C. Fremont | the 1856 presidential candidate for the republican party
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford | after his owner's deathe, Dred scott sued for his freedom claiming that since he lived in a territory where slavery was illegal he was a free man
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| Roger B. Taney | the Chief Justice who said that Dred Scott was not a citizen and couldn't sue the court and he be placed under Missouri's slave code
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| Abraham Lincoln | the 1858 republican of illinois who was nominated to challenge Douglas for his Senator's seat
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| Harpers Ferry | a town in Virginia where John Brown captured weapons and armed slaves to rebell, but no slave fought
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| platform | statement of belief
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| secede | withdraw from the Union
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| Confederate States of America | the states that seceded formed this
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| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy
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| Crittenden Plan | a compromise presented to congress by John Crittenden but didn't pass
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| James Buchanan | The 1856 presidential candidate for the Democratic party
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