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- 4. Nebraska act ,officially An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
- 5. Compromise ,Agreement passed by the U.S. Congress in 1820. Congress agreed to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
- 7. Sovereignty, a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.
- 8. party, one of the two main political parties in the United States. It is more right-wing or conservative than the Democratic Party.
- 9. slave act ,a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States
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- 1. railroad, A network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.
- 2. Turner's Rebellion ,He led a rebellion of salves in Virginia which left many people dead
- 3. of 1850,made it easier for Southern slaveowners to recover runaway slaves.
- 5. destiny, The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
- 6. tom's cabin ,an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.