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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise in 1853; allowed the citizens in the Louisiana Territory to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Resulted when pro-slavery and antislavery forces rushed into Kansas to decide the vote on slavery
Republican
Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery
Fugitive Slave Act
Part of the Compromise of 1850; hated by the North because escaped slaves had to be returned to the South
Dred Scott vs Sanford
A Supreme Court decision that ruled that slaves were property and not US citizens
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Made Abe Lincoln a national figure; made known Lincoln's position regarding slavery
Stephen A Douglas
Proposed that Kansas-Nebraska Act; a Democrat from Illinois who argued that voters in each territory should decide the slavery issue for themselves; won the race against Lincoln for Senate in 1856
John Brown
An extreme abolitionist who led a raid on the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry to get weapons for a slave revolt; considered a saint by the North
Abe Lincoln
His election as president in 1860 convinced South Carolina and other Southern states to secede from the Union
1861-1865
Dates of the Civil War; war between the Union and the Confederacy
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