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- Free Soil Party
- political party founded in 1848 by th antislavery Whigs an Democrats
- Sectionalism
- loyality to state or section rater than to the country
- Mussouri Compromise
- plan proposed by Henry Clay that would keep the number of slave states and free states equal
- Wilmont Proviso
- proposed law that would ban slavery in all lands won from mexico
- Popular Soverrignty
- polciy that would allow a terrotory to decide for itself wheter it want to be a free state or a slave state
- Civil War
- a war between people of thae same country
- Fugitive
- a runaway slave
- Henry Clay
- a famous senator who brought together the Great Compromise
- John C. Calhoun
- refused to compromise insisted that slavery should be allowed in western territores and fugitive slaves to be returned
- Daneil Webster
- supported Clay's plea to save the union