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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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| South | Many planters from this part of the country believed that their way of life depended on extending the institution of slavery. |
| Machines that ran on waterpower | In the 1860s, what helped industries develop in the North and along the eastern coast of the United States? |
