| A | B |
|---|
| cash crop | grown for sale rather than personal use |
| slaves | a person who is the property of another |
| triangular trade | another name for slave trade |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| cotton gin | used to clean seeds from fibers |
| Nationalism | excessive love of your country |
| Missouri Compromise | Compromise of 1820 (3Ms) |
| Daniel Webster | US Senator; born in NH |
| John C. Calhoun | spokesperson for slave states in debates |
| Tariff of Abominations | increased tax on southern exports |
| Henry Clay | The Great Compromiser |
| civil disobedience | refusal to obey unjust law |
| abolition | movement to end slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | published The Liberator |
| emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
| Frederick Douglas | published The North Star |
| Nat Turner | lead a slave revolt |
| antebellum | the period of time before the civil war |
| land grant | a gift of public land to a person or group |
| Alamo | fort in San Antonio, Texas |
| Sam Houston | President of the Republic of Texas |
| annex | to add a territory, state, or nation |
| Lone Star Republic | Texas before entry into US |
| Winfield Scott | Old Fuss and Feathers |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the US war with Mexico, added CA & NM |
| Gasden Purchase | US bought land from Mexico |
| forty-niners | people who went to CA in search of gold |
| gold rush | resulted in many people going to CA |
| Wilmot Proviso | proposed to make all land gained from Mexico slave free |
| Compromise of 1850 | introduced concept of Popular Sovereignty |
| popular sovereignty | people living in an area vote on issues |
| Stephen A Douglas | Senator from Illinois |
| Fugitive Slave Act | escaped slaves would be returned to their owners |
| personal liberty laws | nullified the Fugitive Slave Act in the North |
| underground railroad | slaves used this system to escape North |
| Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad leader |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | portrays slavery as a great moral evil |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Repealed the Missouri Compromise |
| John Brown | attacks Harper's Ferry, VA |
| Bleeding Kansas | fighting over slavery in territories |
| "Beecher's Bibles" | guns sent to Kansas |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for freedom |
| Roger B Taney | Chief Justice, US Supreme Court |
| Abraham Lincoln | elected President in 1860 |
| Freeport Doctrine | Douglas's way to legally ban slavery in West |
| secession | withdrawal of a state from the Union |
| CSA | Confederate States of America |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States |
| navigable | able to travel upon by boat |
