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| a writer and editor, was an important white abolitionist |
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| a former slave who escaped, later published autobiographies and his own antislavery newspaper. |
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| Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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| an agreement that kept the balance of slave and free states |
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| led by South Carolina, this resulted from the South's attempt to nullify a tax on manufactured goods |
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| Vice-President, argued for nullification |
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| loyalty to a part rather than the whole of the United States |
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| the idea that states have certain rights and political powers separate from those held by the federal government |
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| conflict which resulted in the US gain of the Southwest in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago |
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| proposal that states formed out of the former Mexican lands would be free, not slave, not passed. |
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| series of 5 laws that dealt with issues of slavery including passing a harsher Fugitive Slave law |
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| All citizens would be required to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their owners. |
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| to disregard, do away with |
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