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Description: Issued on August 8th, 1846 by a man named David Wilmot after the Mexican-American War.

Purpose: To prohibit the expansion of slavery in any territory that was acquired from Mexico from the Mexican-American war settlement.

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Description: A system in which the residents vote to deside an issue

Purpose: To benefit the people, not the people who govern in their name. Means that the people are the ultimate authority of government.

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Description: Underground Railroad was a system of routes where runaway skates were helped to escape into free states. Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist.

Purpose: To aid fugitive slaves on their escape to freedom.

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Description: A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.

Purpose: Allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States.

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Description: A series of congressional measures intended to settle between free states and slave states.

Purpose: Defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.

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Description: A law made in 1854 in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska that allowed the people to decide whether to allow slavery.

Purpose: To mandate “popular sovereignty” allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.

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Description: A name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between pro slavery and anti slavery forces.

Purpose: The term bleeding was used because the border was where the battles took places, and it was pretty gruesome.

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Dred Scott and the Dred Scott Decision (Supreme Court Case) 

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Dred Scott and the Dred Scott Decision (Supreme Court Case) 

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Description: Dred Scott went to the Supreme Court in hopes that he would get his freedom since he was a slave. The ruling was that since Mr. Scott wasn’t living in a slave state but he still wasn't granted his freedom.

Purpose: Some argued that Scott shouldn’t have been able to sue for his freedom since he wasn’t a citizen, rather that he was property. It was still a step forward in the way that they even discussed the trial happening.

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Description: The debates were in a series of 7 between Abraham Lincoln and the Senator Stephen Douglass.

Purpose: They discussed the issues of slavery along with the Dred Scott case.

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Description: John Brown's raid in 1859, in which he attempted to use the town and the weapons in its Federal Armory as the base for a slave revolt.

Purpose: Intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia.

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Description: The Republican Party was relatively new and was only the second time the party had a candidate in the presidential race. The Constitutional Union Party was also new and 1860 was the first time the party ran a candidate for president

Purpose: The results of the 1860 election pushed the nation into war.

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Description: Fort Sumter is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War.

Purpose: It’s purpose was to guard Charleston Harbor.