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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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Fugitive Slave Act
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A government in which the people rule by their own consent.
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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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A government in which the people rule by their own consent.
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Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858).
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To deliberately destroy or damage.
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Situation in which unlimited wants exceed the limited resources available to fulfill those wants.
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To run quickly, scamper, hurry.
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State of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
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Interacting with others; friendly.
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A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
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Political group that believed in the non-expansion of slavery & consisted of Whigs, Northern Democrats, & Free-Soilers in defiance to the Slave Powers
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American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery.
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The 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South.
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made.
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John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal.
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16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Dark, gloomy; depressed or melancholy in spirit.
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Single thing that is taken as an example of a whole category
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Strength needed to keep going or overcome physical or mental strain; staying power.
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Become less intense, violent, or severe.
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To walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner.