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15 Cards in this Set
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secession
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the formal withdrawl of a state from the Union
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Compromise of 1850
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series of Congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
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popular sovereignty
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a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
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Wilmont Proviso
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an amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory aquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery
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Fugitive Slave Act
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a law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
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personal liberty laws
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statutes, passed in the nine Northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves
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Underground Railroad
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a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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a law, enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
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Bleeding Kansas
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a name applied to the Kansas territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces
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nativism
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favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
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Know-Nothing Party
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a name given to the American Party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
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Free-Soil Party
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a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories
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Republican Party
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the modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
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Freeport Doctrine
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the idea, expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
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Confederacy
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the Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
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