Vocab List #7

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What was the agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri?

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Missouri Compromise

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What was the compromise that allowed California to enter the United States as a free state while permitting some territories to decide on slavery for themselves?

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Compromise of 1850

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A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal means to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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An act of Congress in 1854 overturning the Missouri Compromise. It organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitted these territories to use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty

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Bleeding Kansas

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A slave who sued for his freedom (1857) and was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court.

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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Lincoln won the election in an electoral college landslide with 180 electoral votes, although he secured less than 40 percent of the popular vote.

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Election of 1860