Chapter 14
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Free-Soil Party
A political party that was designed to keep slavery out of the territories and states
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Compromise of 1850
Prevented the Union from falling apart
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Pony Express
A mail service delivered by horseback riders
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Fugitive Slave Act
An act where enforcing greater acts on runaways
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Federal Marshalls
Law enforcers who worked for the U.S. government
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Stephen A. Douglas
A senator from Illnois
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Popular Sovereignty
Allowing people to decided an issue by voting
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
A compromise act that allowed for popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska
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John Brown
An anti-slavery activist who murdered people who were pro-slavery
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Republican Party
Anti-slavery political party founded in 1854
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james buchanan
15th president U.S. President 1857-1861
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Dred Scott
A slave who was taken by his master to a free state. His supporters sued for his freedom
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Roger Taney
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who issued the Dred Scott decision
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Harpers Ferry
Location where John Brown led an attack of antislavery forces to seize weapons at a U.S. Army General
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John Breckinridge
Chosen by Southern Democrats as nominee for President in 1860
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Stephen Douglas
Chosen by Northern Democrats as nominee for President in 1860
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John Bell
Unionist candidate for president in 1860
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Unionists
A political party that sought to choose a Presidential candidate that would appeal to both northerners and southerners
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Seceding
To formally withdraw from the Union
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Confederacy
Name given to the southern states that seceded from the U.S.
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Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America
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Crittenden Plan
A compromise plan on the issue of slavery in 1861. It was an effort to keep the southern states from secceding
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Fort Sumer
An army fort in South Carolina. Location of the first fighting of the Civil War
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Garrison
A defense force
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Dred Scott Decision
Ruling by the US Supreme Court that said dred Scott would remain as a slave
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Racism
The belief that one race is superior than others
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Segregation
Separation of people based by race
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