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| secede | to separate from the Union |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | A novel that increased anti-slavery sentiment in the North |
| Harper's Ferry | an armory (where guns and ammunitions are kept) now in present day West Virginia |
| Liberator | abolitionist newspaper published by Garrison |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader of the women's suffrage movement |
| Nat Turner | a slave from North Hampton, Virginia who led a revolt, killed his master and many other whites |
| John Brown | led the Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Held to Support Women's Rights |
| Stephen Douglas | supporter of Popular Sovereignty |
| William Lloyd Garrison | leading abolitionist |
| abolitionist movement | a movement established in the North to end slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | said "A house divided against itself cannot stand." |
| popular sovereignty | let the people decide about slavery in a territory |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Repealed the Missouri compromise line and allowed Kansas' and Nebraska's status to be determined by popular sovereignty |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Forced runaway slaves to be taken back to their masters |
| Republican Party | party against the spread of slavery into the territories led by Abraham Lincoln |
| Dred Scott Decision | Overturned efforts to stop the spread of slavery and outraged northerners; stated that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere |
| Compromise of 1850 | California became a free state and the Southwest Territory was open to popular sovereignty (a compromise) |
