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the line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states
36 30 north latitude
name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?
popular sovereignty
What act included the Fugitive Slave Act
the Compromise of 1850/might be wrong
Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?
Border Ruffians
What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country?
Civil War
Who was the violent abolitionist?
John Brown
In which state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time?
Kansas
put the issue of slavery to popular vote
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What did the Wilmot Proviso call for?
banning slavery in any lands the U.S. acquired from Mexico.