KEY TERMS

Oregon Trail (p. 363)

gold rush (p. 365)

Compromise of 1850 (p. 368)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (p. 368)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (p. 372)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (p. 373)

Republican Party (p. 373)

Bleeding Kansas (p. 376)

Dred Scott decision (p. 378)

Harpers Ferry, Virginia (p. 379)

Confederate States of America (p. 381)