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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.