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proposal of addition to war appropriations bill. It proposed that in any territory that the United States gained from Mexico “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist.”

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Wilmont Proviso

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group that opposed slavvery in the “free soil” of western territories.

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Free Soil Party

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end of 1849; 80,000 forty-niners had arrived to look for gold

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Forty Niners

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splitting of Henry Clays original proposal in order to get all the original parts passed.

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Compromise of 1850

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Any ordinary citizen can accuse and take runaway slaves into court.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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system of helping enslaved persons escape

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Underground Railroad

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most famous conductor of underground railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that exploited slavery

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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US paid $10 million for this territory, present day Arizona, and New Mexico

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Gadsen Purchase

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made Kansas and Nebraska states, and repealled Missouri Compromise

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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Coalition of whigs and democrats

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Republican Party

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man (enslaved) who sued for his freedom after his slave holder had him live in free territory

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Dred Scott

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making Kansas a slave state, Lecompton was where the document was drafted

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Lecompton Constitution

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Douglas said he accepted Dred Scott ruling, but argued people could still keep slavery out by refusing to pass laws needed to regulate and enforce

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Freeport Doctrine

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abolishionist, developed plain to seize the federal arsenal free and arm enslaved people, begin rebellion against slaveholders, led raid on Harper Ferry

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John Brown

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nominated by the solution democrats in the 1860 election

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John C. Breckinridge

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candidate for election from the constitutional union party

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John Bell

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one of the only forts to remain out of Southern hands

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Fort Sumter

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John J. Crittenden proposed several amendments to the constitution that would avoid civil war

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Crittenden’s Compromise

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president of the Confederate State of America

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Jefferson Davis