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Chapter 10
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10th Grade
02/07/2008
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Wilmot Proviso
 Definition
Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with Mexico
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secession
 Definition
Decision by a state to leave the union
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Compromise of 1850
 Definition

Series of measures that were intneded to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
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Popular sovereignty
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Idea that people living in a territory should make their own desicions, especially the decision to admit slavery
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
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Millard Fillmore
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13th president
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