Unit 6: Westward Expansion Vocabulary

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Popular Sovereignty

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Letting territories decide slavery.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Required the return of escaped slaves

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Free Soil Party

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Against slavery's expansion

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States' Rights

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Doctrine favoring state power

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James K. Polk

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Expansionist president

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Henry Clay

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"Great Compromiser"

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Stephen Douglas

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Advocate of popular sovereignty

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John Brown

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Radical abolitionist

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Slave

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Person owned by another

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Farm

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Land for growing crops