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Sectionalism
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Loyalty to a state/region rather then the country as a whole
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Popular Soverignty
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Allowing residents of an area to decide on issues rather than federal government
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Border Ruffians
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Missourians who harassed thos attempting to vote against slavery in kansas
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Secede
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To withdraw or break away from a political unit
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Abolitionist
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Those striving to end slavery
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Matyr
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Person who dies for a cause
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The Liberator
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Abolitionist newspaper
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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Novel detailing the horrors of slavery
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Underground RR
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Network that aided slaves escape from the South
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Bleeding Kansas
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Newspaper term to refer to violence in Kansas
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Lawrence
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Site of a massacre of anit-slavery persons
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Pottawatomie
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Site of a massacre of pro-slavery persons
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Clay
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The Great Compromiser
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S. Douglas
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Lincoln's main rival, favored popular soverignty
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Buchanan
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Won election of 1856
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