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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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