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The idea that political power belongs to the people, who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.

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A document stating that neither slavery or involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory.

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Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of

the entire country.

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A compromise that seemed to settle most disputes between free and slave states.

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Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed people to arrest slaves in free areas.

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The Fugitive Slave Law | Becoming Frederick Douglass | PBS

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Was arrested in Boston and that angered the people who then joined the abolitionist cause.

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novel written that spoke out powerfully against slavery.

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Pierce promised to honor the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.

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A plan that would divide the Louisiana Purchase into two territories Kansas and Nebraska

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a period of violence in the Kansas Territory resulting from the Kansas-Nebraska Act's

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criticized pro slavery people in Kansas and insulted Andrew Pickens Butler, a pro-slavery senator from South Carolina.

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Lincoln stressed that the central issue of the campaign was the spread of slavery in the West.

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Lincoln's Breakthrough at the Lincoln-Douglas Debates | Abraham Lincoln