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the idea that political authority belongs to the people; allowed for voting on slavery in territories that wanted to become a state
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popular sovereignty
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a devotion to the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole
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sectionalism
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the idea that political authority belongs to the people; allowed for voting on slavery in territories that wanted to become a state
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a devotion to the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole
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Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
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a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
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an enslaved African, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act
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an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists' cause
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an American author, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin
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he debated Abraham Lincoln about slavery during the Illinois senatorial race. He also proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and believed in the idea of popular sovereignty
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a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
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an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery supporters in Kansas
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he was an American congressman, he assaulted and beat Senator Charles Sumner for his antislavery speeches and for insulting a pro-slavery relative.
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a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West
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he was an enslaved African who filed suit for his freedom stating that his time living in a free state made him a free man
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a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, he wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision, stating that African Americans were not citizens and that
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he promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln- Douglas debates; he won the presidential election of 1860
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a series of debates between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas during the 1858 U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois
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an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave rebellion
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the act of formally withdrawing from the Union
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the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy
