| A | B |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book written against slavery |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Got rid of Missouri Compromise, people vote on slavery |
| Compromise of 1850 | Allowed California to join Union as a free state |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri admitted as slave state, Maine a free state |
| Dred Scott Decision | Couldn't sue, not a citizen, opened all territories to slavery |
| Popular Sovereignty | Citizens of a territory vote to allow slavery or not |
| Sectionalism | Placing the good of your region above the country |
| Expansion of slavery | Major area of conflict in US in 1850 |
| Goal of the Confederacy | Become an independent country |
| South Carolina | First state to secede from Union |
| Harriet Tubman | Leader of Underground RR |
| Harpers Ferry | John Brown raided arsenal to start slave revolt |
| Underground Railroad | Organization helped slaves escape to freedom |
| Abolitionists | Member of antislavery group |
| Southern states secede | After Lincoln elected President |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican elected President in 1860 |
| Free soil Party | Party to prevent slavery in new territories |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Law requiring Northerners to help capture runaway slaves |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Lincoln's main goal | Preserve the Union |
| Fort Sumter | Confederate troops fired on, began Civil War |
| George McClellan | Leader union army after Bull Run |
| William T. Sherman | Marched through south & captured Atlanta |
| "March to the Sea" | Shermans destructive march through South |
| Robert E. Lee | General who commanded Confederate Army |
| Monitor and Marrimac | Ironclad Warships |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy, dastate South's ability to fight |
| Appomattox Court House | Lee surrendered to Grant here, Civil War was over |
| Clara Barton | Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Total War | Sherman's total destruction of property in the South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed slaves in the Confederacy |
| Copperhead | Northerners who opposed Abraham Lincoln |
