Vocab #16

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Agreements for California's admission as a free state included allowing New Mexico and Utah to decide on slavery, banning slave trade in D.C., and a stronger fugitive slave law.

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Compromise of 1850

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to meet, especially in a challenge

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confront

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Supreme Court decision in 1857 stating African Americans could never be U.S. citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

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Dred Scott decision

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to make sure or certain

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ensure

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A group within a larger group with differing ideas.

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faction

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A person who flees or tries to escape (e.g., from slavery)

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fugitive

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1854 act creating Kansas & Nebraska territories, allowing settlers to decide on slavery, abolishing Missouri Compromise.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas focused on slavery.

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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Agreement by Congress in 1820: Missouri as slave state, Maine as free state.

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Missouri Compromise

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The U.S. as one nation under a single government, especially during the Civil War.

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Union