Vocab 6.1

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Agreement allowing Missouri as a slave state and Maine as free, prohibiting future slavery above the 36-30 line.

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Missouri Compromise.

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Agreement allowing California as a free state; rest of Mexican Cession divided for popular sovereignty.

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Compromise of 1850.

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Fugitive Slave Law: Part of the Compromise of 1850 allowing capture of escaped enslaved persons in the North.

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Captured and returned to the South.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act: Allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose on slavery, leading to violence and 'Bleeding Kansas'.

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Allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery. It led to violence and 'Bleeding Kansas'.

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Abolitionist:

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A person who wanted to abolish slavery.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horrors of slavery that divided the nation.

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Sued for freedom; Supreme Court ruled enslaved people weren't citizens; Congress couldn't ban slavery.

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Dred Scott case.

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Speech by Abraham Lincoln: did not want to ban slavery where it existed, aimed to keep the union together.

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Lincoln's Inaugural Address.

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States' Rights:

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The belief that state power should exceed federal power.

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Secede means:

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To formally withdraw from the Union (United States).