Popular Sovereignty - Settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Act - Citizens from each territory can decided whether the state is free or slave state through popular Sovereignty, Nativist - The political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measure, Confederacy - An alliance of the states that seceded from the Union, Black Codes - Laws that were placed in order to limit the freedoms of African Americans, Dred Scott v. Sandford - Court case that declared that African Americans were not US citizens, therefore could not sue, Free Soil Party - Political party in history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories before the Civil War, Abolitionist - A person who favors the abolition of slavery, Underground Railroad - An escape route used by enslaved African Americans to get into the North, Compromise of 1850 - Admitted California as a free state, Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, adopted Fugitive Slave Act, Fugitive Slave Act - Allows slave catchers to catch slaves even in the North, Sectionalism - The loyalty ones own region or part of a country in which they believe they are superior,

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