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2. Winfield American general, he served as commander in the Mexican War and used a two-part strategy against the South in the Civil War; he wanted to destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade and gain control of the Mississippi River.
6. burn Enslaved African American, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act.
8. Proviso a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by Mexican Cession ;passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate
9. to formally withdraw from the Union
11. sumter a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
14. party a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue

1. state Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War
2. would be decided by popular sovereignty
3. sovereignty the idea that political authority belong to the people
4. Slave Act a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of\ escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders
5. of 1850 Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the
7. Harriet Beecher American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
9. a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole a
10. diplomacy Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War
12. Tom’s Cabin an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause
13. as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where