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AH M3L2 Key Terms
American History Module 3 Lesson 2 Key Terms
Term | Definition |
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Free Soil Party | Precursor to the Republican Party; this group formed primarily to support the abolition of slavery. |
Popular Sovereignty | Principle belief that a state’s authority stems from the consent of its people. |
Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay’s proposal of separate bills to negotiate peace and avoid war between slave and free states. |
Sectionalism | Regional loyalty as opposed to the whole country. |
Fugitive Slave Act | Part of the Compromise of 1850, it was a law requiring run away slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. |
Kansas Nebraska Act | Created Kansas and Nebraska as states allowing for popular sovereignty to decide the existence of slavery. |
Bleeding Kansas | Event following the Kansas-Nebraska Act in which pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions fought one another in the Kansas territory. |
Harper's Ferry | Site of John Brown’s raid of the federal arsenal with the intent to incite rebellion against slavery. |
Know Nothing Party | Political group created with the purpose of excluding American Indians and all foreign citizens. |