Free-Soil Party- A minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.
Fugitive- is someone that has escaped from captivity or is in hiding, an ‘escapee’.
Wilmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.
<h2><em><u>The British invasions of the River Plate were a series of unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of areas in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata that were located around the Río de la Plata in South America — in present-day Argentina and Uruguay. </u></em></h2><h2 /><h2><em><u>Start date: 1806</u></em></h2><h2><em><u>End date: 1807</u></em></h2><h2><em><u>Result: Spanish </u></em><em><u>victory</u></em></h2><h2><em><u>Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina</u></em></h2>
