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Wilmot Proviso correct answers An amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery (defeated in Congress) Secession correct answers The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union Compromise of 1850 correct answers A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between the free and slave states which resulted in a compromise "States Rights" correct answers The belief that states and their laws superseded (was above) any federal laws or regulations "Popular Sovereignty" correct answers The rights of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery themselves Fugitive Slave Act correct answers A law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned in bondage to their owners Underground Railroad correct answers A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to the North or to Canada, to safe areas in the free states Harriet Tubman correct answers "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, a former slave who helped bring 300 slaves to freedom in the North "Bleeding Kansas" correct answers Name applied to the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces John Brown correct answers Fiery idealist and abolitionist who believed that God had called on him to fight slavery in Kansas and at Harper's Ferry in 1859 "Nativism" correct answers Political stance of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants "A House Divided Speech" correct answers Speech by Abraham Lincoln at the Republican Party Convention in which he asserted the United States could not survive for long with such a deep gulf between North and South Dred Scott Decision correct answers Important Supreme Court ruling basically saying that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that Congress could not forbid slavery in any territories which would interfere with slaveholder's rights to own property Harper's Ferry correct answers Federal arsenal in Virginia that John Brown and his group tried to seize in October 1859 to arm slaves and start a general slave uprising