The Union in Crisis - Key Terms

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Idea that the people of each state would decide whether or not to allow slavery in that state

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Popular Sovereignty

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Stated that Kansas & Nebraska would settle the slavery issue through popular sovereignty

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The southern states that seceded from the Union called themselves the ___________________________

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Confederate States of America

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"Bleeding Kansas"

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The name given to the state of Kansas because of all the fighting over slavery

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Which fort was the site of the first skirmish between Union and Confederate "soldiers?"

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Fort Sumter

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This piece of legislation stated that all citizens nationwide were responsible for the catching & return of escaped enslaved persons, even those that lived in the North.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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These people who supported slavery lived in the state of Missouri, but would often cross over to Kansas and cast illegal votes to make the state pro-slavery

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Border Ruffians

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This word means "to break away from;" Used in the sense that the Southern states broke away from the Union

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Secede

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This political party was born from an anti-immigrant movement that began in the 1830s/1840s

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Know-Nothing Party

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This political party advocated for "free soil, free speech, free labor, free men"

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Free-Soil Party