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| Causes of the Civil War | economic disagreements such as slavery, tariffs, and economic base, and states rights. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | young white abolitionists, spread his ideas to end slavery through The Liberator. |
| Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist, escaped slave who spoke at meetings thoughout the North, sharing his story. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | 1850-a law that made it illegal to help slaves escape. Required them to be returned and the helpers punished. |
| Free States | States that wanted free labor not slave. |
| Slave States | States that wanted slave labor not free. |
| The Missouri Compromise of 1820 | an agreement to maintain a balance between "free" and "slave states. |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831 | Abolitionist and slave who led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia. |
| Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave who became a well known conductor on the Underground Railroad. |
| The Compromise of 1850 | Another agreement to avoid war; California entered as a "free state", New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory would decide for themselves, and Fugitive slave law passed. |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | Eliminated the "line dividing "free and slave states", each would now decide for itself. |
| Dred Scoot Decision | A Supreme Court decision that slaves were not citizens of the United States and Congress could not forbid slavery in the United States. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who led a raid on the United STates Armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He was going to distribute the weapons to slaves to start a rebellion. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Became President of the United States in 1860. He ws firmly opposed to the spread of slavery but, pledged during his election to leave slavery alone where it already existed. |
| Confederate States of America | By March of 1861 7 southern states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana had seceded to form a new nation. |
| Jefferson Davis | A United States Senator form Mississippi who ecame the President of the Confederate States of America. |
| Battle at Fort Sumter | The Confederate takeover of Fort Sumter was the beginning of the Civil War. |
| Creation of West Virginia, 1863 | Conflict grew between the eastern counties of Virginia and the western counties about slavery. The western counties created a new state, West Virginia which was against slavery. |
