| Definition | Term |
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| A moral crusade to immediately end the system of human slavery in the United States. | |
| Intentionally breaking or defying the law to call attention to what is believed to be evil or injustice. | |
| Position taken by Stephen Douglas in which he said slavery could not exist if local legislation did not accept it. | |
| Created two new territories with slavery decided by popular sovereignty; it effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise. | |
| Reflected a fear that the US was being taken over by foreigners. Found a political expression in the American Party also called the Know-Nothing Party. | |
| It meant that the decision to permit slavery in a territory was up to the territorial legislature; it was incorporated into the Compromise of 1850. | |
| American expression of the Romantic movement that emphasized the limits of reason, individual freedom, and nature; best represented by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. | |
| The virtual civil war that erupted on Kansas in 1856 between pro slavery and free soilers as a consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. | |
| The idea that Congress had the authority to ban slavery in the western territories. It was embodied in the Wilmot Proviso. The advocates of this had their own political party. | |
| An intellectual movement that stressed emotion, sentiment and individualism. A reaction to rationalism and the classical revival. | |
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