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The political party dedicated to keeping slavery out of new territories and states.

• unionists

• democrats

• free soil

Law enforcers who work for the U.S. government.

• border ruffians

• federal marshalls

• pony express

It strengthened an earlier act passed by Congress in 1793.

• The Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• The Kansas Nebraska Act

The belief that one race is superior to others

• racism

• segregation

• discrimination

Separation of people based on race.

• racism

• segregation

• discrimination

Mail service delivered by horseback riders

• U.S. post office

• mustang pride

• pony express

Allowed California to become a free state and stregthened the Fugitive Slave law.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

He proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Stephan Douglas

Allows residents to decide an issue by voting.

• voting rights

• secession

• popular sovereignty

It repealed the Missouri Compromise.

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Decision