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| the period in the South before the civil war |
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| an antebellum landholder who owned 20 or more field slaves |
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| a white middle-class farmer who generally owned fewer than 100 acres |
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| putting the interests of a particular section or region above those of the nation |
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| a tax or duty imposed on goods imported from other countries |
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| belief that American states have certain rights under the 10th amendment to the us constitution that the national government cannot violate |
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| declaring that a law is without force and is not binding |
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| the action of Southern states, 1in 1860 and 1861, of withdrawing from the union |
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| to set free, especially with respect to slaves |
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| it stated that maine would be admitted as a free state and missouri would be admitted as a slave state; in the future, slavery would be prohibited north of latitude 36 30 |
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| California comes in as a free state; south wants northerners to return slaves to them; popular sovereignty; slave trade ended in Washington DC |
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| the idea that government must be based on the will of the people |
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| all slaves found in the north must be returned to their correct slave owners in the south; law didn't work |
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| territories of Nebraska and Kansas created in 1854; voters of each territory would decide if slavery was permitted |
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| a person opposed to slavery |
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| Free black slaves were sent here. They formed an independent nation in 1847 |
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| a network of people and places that sheltered slaves as they escaped the south seeking freedom in the north |
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| underground railroad conductors knew that they were going the right way by following the direction of the north star; abolitionist newspaper edited by frederick douglass (ex-slave who became famous speaker) |
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