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| agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state; also outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of the 36'30 line | ||
| before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territopry had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be avoided there | ||
| proposed that in any territory that the US gained from Mexico should not have any slavery | ||
| Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty; also settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished the slave trade in Washington and produced a new Fugitive Slave Act | ||
| novel about the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Law Written by Harrit Beacher Stowe | ||
| refering to the countryside and the people living there | ||
| loyality to ones own section of the country rather than to the nation as a whole | ||
| Slave who sued for his freedom after being taken to live in a free state | ||
| Supreme Court ruling that Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that slaves were property, not people and thus couldn't sue | ||
| the formal withdrawing of a state from the Union | ||
| US fort in the harbor of Charleston, SC, the Southern attack here began the Civil War |
