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| Missouri Compromise | A law passed by Congress in 1820 that created an imaginary line between territories in the West where slavery would be allowed and territories where it would not be allowed. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Laws passed by Congress providing that California would enter the Union as a free state that people living in other territories would be allowed to decide whether or not they wanted slavery and that everyone would have to obey the Fugutive Slave Law. |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | An 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that attacked slavery. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | A law passed by Congress in 1854 that allowed the people who settled in Kansas and Nebraska to decided for themselves whether they would allow slavery in their territories. |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision of 1857 that said the slavery was legal in any part of the U.S. |
| Secession | Breaking away from the Union. |
| Confederate States of America | The country formed by the Southern states during the American Civil War. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War. |
| John Brown | Abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1895. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
