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| Missouri Compromise (1820) | Missouri comes into the Union as a slave state and Maine comes in to the Union as a free state |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | book written by a white woman expressing the evil of slavery |
| Popular Sovereignty | the idea that people living within the western territories could choose by voting if they would allow slavery or not allow slavery in the region |
| Mason-Dixon Line | the dividing boundary line between northern free states and southern slave states |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed citizens in the Kansas-Nebraska Territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery to be legal. Repealed both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
| Bleeding Kansas | known as Bloody Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" in Kansas between 1854 and 1861 |
| John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry, VA | led by abolitionist John Brown he organized a small group on a raid against a federal armory (arsenal) in Harpers Ferry, VA now West Virginia in an attempt to start a slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. Was defeated by Robert E. Lee |
| Compromise of 1850 | California came into the Union as a free state and to please the southern states the Fugitive Slave Act was reinforced |
| Dred Scott vs. Sanford Supreme Case (1857) | Dred Scott a slave sued and argued for his freedom on the basis he had lived in "free territory" until his master died. The Supreme Court ruled that a slave was not a citizen and could not begin a case against anyone. They said slaves were declared as property and the government had no right according to the Constitution to deny a citizen of their property rights. |
| Fugitive Slave Act (law) | a law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to free- states |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | debates between Lincoln and Douglas. Both campaigned in Illinois for a seat in the Senate. Douglas supported the idea of the extension of slavery and popular sovereignty in territories such as Kansas. Lincoln lost but it pushed him into a potential candidate for the election of 1861 |
| Election of 1861 | Lincoln was elected as President and immediately after South Carolina seceded and broke away from the Union and created the cConfederacy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln freed the slaves in states of rebellion but not in border states |
| Gettysburg Address | speech delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 as a dedication of Soldiers National Cemetery-a cemetery for Union soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Enfranchisement | the ability to vote |
| Disenfranchisement | laws that prohibited the ability to vote |
| Secede | to break away /separate |
| Union | represents the North during the Civil War |
| Confederacy | represents the South during the Civil War |
| Contraband | fugitive slaves were considered property |
| Abolitionist | a person who wants to abolish slavery |
| Wilmot Proviso | intent on making slavery illegal in the territories gained during the Mexican-American War, but failed due to southern leaders led by John C. Calhoun that fought against it. |
