sectionalism - loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country rather than the nation as a whole., slavery - the practice of forcing people to work without pay and treating them as property, Civil War - a war between people in the same country, Missouri Compromsise - an agreement that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in territories north of the 36°30’ line, free state - a state where slavery was not allowed, slave state - a state where slavery was legal, Manifest Destiny - the belief that the United States was meant to expand across North America, Free-Soil Party - a political party that opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories, popular sovereignty - the idea that people in a territory should vote on whether to allow slavery, Compromise of 1850 - a law that allowed California to become a free state, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, and let some territories decide on slavery by popular sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Act - a law that required all citizens to help capture runaway enslaved people, Uncle Tom's Cabin - a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the cruelty of slavery and increased tensions between North and South, Kansas-Nebraska Act - a law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violence, border ruffian - pro-slavery activists from Missouri who crossed into Kansas to influence the slavery vote, guerilla warfare - fighting using small, quick attacks rather than organized battles, Dred Scott v. Sandford - a 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled Black Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in any U.S. territory, Republican Party - a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery, arsenal - a storage place for weapons and military equipment, martyr - someone who dies for a cause and is remembered as a hero, treason - the crime of betraying one’s country,

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