Key Terms

Wilmot Proviso (p. 373)

free labor (p. 373)

popular sovereignty (p. 375)

Compromise of 1850 (p. 377)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (p. 378)

Fugitive Slave Act (p. 379)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (p. 382)

Republican Party (p. 385)

“Bleeding Kansas” (p. 389)

Dred Scott decision (p. 390)

Lincoln-Douglas debates (p. 393)

Confederate States of America (p. 396)