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History of the Americas
Vocabulary #11
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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An 1854 law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
An 1854 law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
The concept of allowing the people to decide by state whether slavery should be allowed in territories through voting.
Fugitive Slave Act
Law that made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves and allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves even in areas where slavery was illegal
Secede
To formally withdraw from the union
Confederate States of America
The name adopted by the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
