| A | B |
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| John Brown | white abolitionist who led a raid on the U.S. Armory at Harper's Ferry, VA |
| Eli Whitney | invented the Cotton Gin in 1793 |
| Northern States | industrialized |
| Name for the Southern States | Confederacy |
| Fugitive Slave Law | made it illegal to help slaves escape; required all citizens to help capture and return runaway slaves |
| Name for the Northern States | Union |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave from Maryland who led escaped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | created a line from east to west through the Louisiana Territory; states south of the line allowed slaves, and states to the north (except Missouri) did not |
| Nat Turner | led a rebellion in 1831 against plantation owners, killing nearly 60 white men, women, and children |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | stated that California would be 'free'; Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves to be 'free' or 'slave' states; and any slaves escaping to the north should be returned |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | stated that there would no longer be a line to separate free states from slave states; instead each state would vote to decide for themselves |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decided that a slave was not a U.S. citizen, and that Congress could not forbid slavery in the U.S. |
| Underground Railroad | secret route that slaves used to escape from the south |
| Southern States | agricultural |
| Gabriel Prosser | planned one of the largest slave uprisings in 1800 |
| William Lloyd Garrison | started a movement to end slavery completely. Wrote The Liberator to spread his ideas of ending slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave who escaped from Maryland in 1838, and began to speak throughout the North and in the North Star sharing his story of slavery and its cruelty |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States |
| West Virginia | disagreement between the eastern counties and the western counties because the eastern counties relied on slavery and the western counties did not |
| Fort Sumter, SC | Civil War began here where the Confederates took over the Union garrison |
| Montgomery, Alabama | the FIRST capital of the Confederacy |
| Richmond, Virginia | became the capital of the Confederacy when Virginia seceded |
| Abraham Lincoln | became president of the United States in 1860 |
