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Underlying Causes of the Civil War
This section will review related to the American Civil War unit.
These words are all associated with the the Underlying Causes of the Civil War.
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Union,  | the federal union of states during the period of the U.S. Civil War |
Confederacy,  | the 11 southern states seceding from the U.S. in 1860 and 1861 |
secede,  | to withdraw from an organization (as a religious communion or political party or federation) |
popular sovereignty,  | The doctrine that assumes that the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves. |
Compromise of 1850,  | Stated that California could enter as free state; Texas was given $ for land; new territories of Utah, Arizon, New Mexico would decide their own fate concerning slavery (popular sovereignty) |
Fugitive Slave Law (1850),  | Denied fugitives the right to a jury trail |
Kansas-Nebraska Act,  | Repelled the Missouri Compromise and allows Nebraska & Kansas to enter the United States and to determine their slave staus |
Bleeding Kansas,  | Period form 1854 - 1861 when the state of Kansas was beseiged by raiders, pro- and anti-slavery. |
Republican Party,  | Political party began in 1854 as a Whigs, Free Soilists, and Abolitionists joined forces |
Abolitionist,  | historically, a person opposed to slavery and wished to see it abolished. |
Debate,  | a regulated discussion of a proposition between two matched sides |
John C. Fremont,  | First Republican candidate for President |
Abraham Lincoln,  | First Republican to win the Presidency |
Stephen Douglas,  | Democratic candidate, from Illinois, for president in 1860; lost to Lincoln |
John Breckinridge,  | Southern-Democrat (or National Democratic) candidate for president in 1860; lost to Lincoln |
John Bell,  | Constitutional Union party candidate for president in 1860; lost to Lincoln |
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