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| Harriet Tubman | This person excaped from slavery and then led hundreds of others to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| Underground Railroad | A secret network of safe stops along which slaves could travel to freedom in the North |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a novel which revealed the harshness of slavery and encouraged anti-slavery feelings |
| abolitionist | someone who worked to end slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a white abolitionist who wrote a newspaper called the Liberator to spread ideas against slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | a former slave who wrote and published a abolitionist newspaper called The North Star. He also made public appearances speaking out against slavery. |
| The North Star | The name of the newspaper published by Frederick Douglass |
| The Liberator | The name of the newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Increased demand for slaves | Did the invention of the cotton gin increase or decrease the demand for slaves? |
| cotton gin | The invention which removed the seeds from cotton thereby making it more profitable to produce cotton |
| slave state | a state which allowed slavery |
| free state | a state which did NOT allow slavery |
| Louisiana Territory or Lousiana Purchase | This huge purchase of land from France doubled the size of the United States |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | In this law it was decided that Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | In this law it was decided that states entering the Union north of an imaginary line would be free states, and states entering the Union south of this imaginary line would be slave states |
| East to West | The imaginary line that was created as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ran in which direction? North to South or East to West? |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | In this law, Congress decided to allow California in to the Union as a free state. |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | In this compromise Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | This law said that all runaway slaves had to be returned to their owner, even if they had made their way to free states in the North |
| Fugitive Slave Law | This law made it the rsponsibility of every citizen to report and return all fugitive slaves to their owners. |
| Missouri Compromise of 1850 | In this law it was decided that the territories of Utah and New Mexico could decide for themselves whether to enter the Union as free states or slave states. |
| popular sovereignty | This term means that people in a territory could decide for themselves throug a vote whether to be a free state or a slave state. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 | In this law Congress decided to let Kansas and Nebraska decide for themselves whether to enter the Union as free or slave states. |
| agriculture or farming | Prior to the Civil War, the economy in the South was based primarily on this. |
| manufacturing / factories | Prior to the Civil War, the economy in the North was based primarily on this. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Who vowed NOT to extend or expand slavery during his campaign to become president? |
| After Abraham Lincoln was elected to become president. | When did states begin seceding from the Union? |
| South Carolina | What was the first state to secede from the United States or the Union? |
| After Fort Sumter | Did Virginia secede from the Union before or after the "battle" at Fort Sumter? |
| secede | This term means to leave or separate from |
| Jefferson Davis | This person was elected to become the president of the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) |
| Montgomery, Alabama | This was the first location of the Confederate capital. |
| Richmond, Virginia | This became the capital of the Confederacy after Virginia seceded from the U.S. |
| Bleeding Kansas | This term refers to the disputes and fighting that occured in Kansas when settlers for and against slavery rushed in to make sure their side was in the majority. |
| Congress | As new states joined the Union as free or slave, existing states in the North and South were concerned about changing the balance of power in this governing body. |
| South | Many planters from this part of the country believed that their way of life depended on extending the institution of slavery. |
