Period 5 Tier 3 Vocabulary

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The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America.

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Manifest Destiny

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A proposal to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.

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Wilmot Proviso

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The agreement admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Law.

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Compromise of 1850

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This law required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and penalized those who aided their escape.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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This 1854 law allowed settlers in new territories to decide if they would allow slavery, leading to violence.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, especially regarding slavery.

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Popular Sovereignty

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The 1857 Supreme Court case ruling that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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Idea proposed by Stephen Douglas that territorial residents could exclude slavery by not adopting laws to protect it.

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Freeport Doctrine

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This political party, founded in the 1850s, opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories.

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Republican Party

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The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.

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Secession