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Ostend Manifesto

This document was a secret plan proposed by American diplomats in 1854 to purchase Cuba from Spain. It caused tensions to raise between North and the South.

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Compromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise)

Agreement between North and South to regulate slavery in new territories. Missouri became slave state, Maine a free state. Slavery banned north of 36°30' line.

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Compromise of 1850

A package of laws passed by the U.S. Congress to resolve disputes over slavery in newly acquired territories after the Mexican-American War. The Compromise admitted California as a free state, abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C., and created a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law.

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Fugitive slave law

A law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves to their owners.

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Popular Sovereignty

The right to vote against or for slavery

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State Rights

States wanted to assert their powers and engaged in a power struggle with the federal government over their rights in the UNION.

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Stephan Douglas

Created Popular sovereignty and also ran against Lincoln Also created the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Allowed people in territories Kansas and Nebraska to be able to decide if they wanted to be a slave state.

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Freeport Doctrine

stated that slavery can be excluded from territories of the US with local laws

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Uncle Toms Cabin

a book about the abuse and mistreatment of slaves in the South (Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe)

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Harper’s Ferry

Location of a failed slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859. .

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John Brown

Tried to start a slave uprising in the South was later hung. South seen him as a terrorist while North saw him as a Hero

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Dred Scott

J ust because you step on free land dosen’t make you a free man.

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Anaconda plan

North’s plan to trap the South by blocking up ports and cutting off the Mississippi river