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.
Lincoln believed they committed acts of treason.
A. sending soldiers to the South to enforce antidiscrimination laws" was a way in which the federal government safeguarded blacks' civil rights during congressional Reconstruction
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Segregation of society, meaning black and white schools, hospitals ,etc.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas had their disagreement on: <span>whether slavery should be allowed to expand to new territories
According to Abraham Lincoln, all form of slavery should be abolished from every corner of United States while according to Douglas, slavery should be allowed on every states that agree to legalize it.</span>
