1. Vocab Chapter 9 & 10

2. Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

3. Popular Sovereignty
Political doctrine that allowed the settlers of U.S. federal territories to decide whether to enter the Union as free or slave states.

4. Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

5. Underground Railroad
A secret cooperative network that aided fugitive slaves in reaching sanctuary in the free states or in Canada in the years before the abolition of slavery in the United States.

6. Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1861.