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| an area of land that belongs to a country |
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| Henry Clay came up with this compromise. It said that Missouri would be a slave state. The next state, Maine, would be free. |
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| came up with a compromise that said slavery could go on for 20 years |
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| leader of Mexico and sent his army to Texas to make sure the Texans obeyed his laws. |
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| who used to own Texas and Mexico |
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| did not want war with Mexico |
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| made a 2nd compromise- said California should be free and all runaway slaves had to be caught and sent back to their masters |
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| get rid of or stop slavery |
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| someone who wanted to do away with slavery |
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| people called her "Moses"- she led more than 300 slaves to freedom |
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| an escape route that runaway slaves followed to freedom in the North |
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| gave 2 more new territories the right to choose slavery or freedom |
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| terrible fighting between Kansas and Nebraska |
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| lived in cities, did not want slavery, factories |
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| lived on farms and wanted slavery |
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| the Union raised their flag and the Confederate Army shot at it |
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| What war did the battle of Fort Sumter begin? |
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| American Civil War in 1861 |
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| Confederacy or the Confederate States of America |
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| South Carolina and six other states left the Union and formed a new country |
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| clerk in a general store, owner of a store, surveyor, post-office clerk, lawyer, President of the United States, against slavery, and called "Honest Abe" |
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