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Union All states until the civil war. During the civil war it is only the northern states. Missouri Compromise Congress agreeing Missouri is a slave state, Maine is a free state. A compromise line is drawn separating free and slave states. fugitive a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution. Wilmot Proviso The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. Compromise of 1850 A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides Kansas-Nebraska Act It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. Dred Scott Decision a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a "free" territory with his master. Lincoln-Douglass debates a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.