| A person who takes the law into his/her own
hands. |
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| A former president who ran as the first candidate
of the Free Soil Party. |
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| The doctrine that left the decision whether
a state would enter the Union slave or free
up to the territorial legislature representing
the people of that territory. |
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| This document urged lower-class southern
whites to resist planter dominance and abolish
slavery in their own best interests. |
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| A controversial Supreme Court case that angered
abolitionists by declaring that slaves were
not citizens and could not claim their freedom
even in Northern states. |
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| A fanatical American abolitionist, he led
an armed band that seized the federal arsenal
at Harpers Ferry, VA, hoping to set off a
general slave revolt. |
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| A pro-slavery constitution submitted to the
voters of Kansas in 1857 which was rejected
by more than 100,000 votes. |
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| A leading 19c African American abolitionist who escaped
from slavery and founded and edited The North Star. |
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| This statement offered by Stephen Douglas
provided territories with a plan to prevent
the immigration of slaveholders into the
western territories. |
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| A series of measures by which Congress attempted
to resolve the intensified conflict over
slavery following the war with Mexico. |
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| This abolitionist and escaped slave, nicknamed
the "Black Moses", conducted hundreds
of slaves to freedom through the Underground
Railroad. |
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| A futile last-minute attempt to postpone
the breakup of the Union by guaranteeing
slavery in the South and simultaneously reinstating
the Missouri Compromise line. Lincoln refused
to accept these proposals. |
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