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.
North was antislavery; South was pro-slavery. North was business and trade oriented; South was agrarian. ... They wanted slavery to end in all of the United States.
