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A group of radical pro-slavery southerners that wanted the south to secede from the Union.

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Someone who supports Secession during the Civil War.

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Someone who opposed Secession during the Civil War.

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The official document stating that southern states would secede from the union.

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The election that Republican Abraham Lincoln won.

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The effort taken by John Brown to start a slave revolt and take over Harpers Ferry.

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An abolitionists of the nineteenth century that fought to free slaves by military force.

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Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, also known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.

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The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections.

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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern" elements in Kansas.

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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.

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The Mexican war was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.

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Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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the Force Bill refers to legislation enacted by the 22nd U.S. Congress on March 2, 1833, during the Nullification Crisis.

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John C. Calhoun was a  American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina.

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Protective Tariffs enacted with the goal of protecting a domestic industry.

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The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.

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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.