A document stating that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory.”

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Antislavery northerners who formed a party that supported the Wilmot Proviso.

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Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.

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Formally withdrawing from something - in this case, the South seceding from the Union.

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California entered as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Session was divided into two territories -Utah and New Mexico, where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty

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Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

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An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Sold over 2 million copies in 10 years. Inflamed abolitionists’ feelings in the North.

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Divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories - Kansas and Nebraska. It allowed the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.

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Their platform was a reaction against the idea of states’ rights. John Bell was nominated as their presidential candidate.

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Mississippi, Florida, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They chose Jefferson Davis as their president and their capital as Richmond, VA.

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Pottawatomie Massacre - John Brown’s raid where they killed five pro-slavery men. This was a warmup for his raid at Harper’s Ferry.

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Pro and anti-slavery groups clashed violently in what became known as “Bleeding Kansas”. The sack of Lawrence led to the Pottawatomie Massacre

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Built from the remains of the Whig, Democrats, Free-Soilers, and abolitionists in 1854.

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A slave takes his master to court to sue for his freedom because his master had taken him to a free state for a period of time. The Supreme Court decided that African Americans were not considered citizens of the U. S. and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court. It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. So basically, the Supreme Court said that slaves were the “property” of their masters and that even freed African Americans were NOT citizens.

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Chief justice of the Supreme Court who issued the decision in the Dred Scott case.

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Police would enforce the voters’ decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case. This effectively put the slavery question back in the hands of American citizens.

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Brown, his sons, and his followers took over the arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. The plan was to capture all the weapons, distribute them to local slaves and start a slave rebellion. Col. Robert E. Lee took the group into custody and they were hung 2 months later.

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