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| Missouri Compromise | Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; it also established the southern border of Missouri as the boundary for slave states. |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section, rather than to the country as a whole |
| popular sovereignty | a policy that would allow a territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery |
| Fort Sumter | the location of the first battle of the Civil War |
| South Carolina | the first state to secede from the Union |
| secede | to withdraw from the Union |
| fugitive | a runaway |
| arsenal | gun warehouse |
| civil war | a war between people of the same country |
| John Brown | abolitionist who was responsible for the raid on Harper's Ferry's arsenal |
| abolitionist | a person who wants to abolish (get rid of) slavery |
| Dred Scott | a slave who sued for his freedom |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
| The Confederate States of America | the nation formed by the southern states that seceded the Union |
| Compromise of 1850 | California was a free state; mexican cession would be divided according to popular sovereignty; Wash DC abolished slave trade; fugitive slave law passed |
| Fugitive Slave Law | law that required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | a novel about the evils of slavery |
| Stephen Douglas | senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | law creating Kansas and Nebraska as states and allowing them to use popular sovereignty to decide if they were to permit slavery or not |
| Bleeding Kansas | name given to Kansas after violence broke out as a result of ballot stuffing |
| boomtown | town that sprung up rapidly as a result of the gold rush |
| ghost town | a town that is abandoned due to lack of gold |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President whose election resulted in the southern states secession |
| Henry Clay | Great Compromiser who developed Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
| forty-niners | men who rushed out to California in 1849 hoping to get rich quickly by discovering gold |
