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| abolitionist | person who wanted to end slavery |
| The Liberator | an antislavery newspaper begun by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Quakers | Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Law passed in1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves |
| Wilmot Proviso | a law passed in 1846 that banned slavery in any territories won by the United States from Mexico |
| Compromise of 1850 | an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | an antislavery bestseller written by Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote the novel to show the evils of slavery and the injustice of the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Missouri Compromise | an agreement proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal |
| Bleeding Kansas | several acts of violence were committed by pro and antislavery supporters in Kansas |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | an1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery in their area |
| Popular sovereignty | in the mid 1800s a term referring to the idea that each territory could decide for itself whether or not to all slavery. This was suppose to solve the slavery issue |
| Dred Scott Decision | an 1827 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories |
| Dred Scott | an enslaved African was taken into a non-slave territory placing his status as a slave in question. He took his case to court. |
| Secession | the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in 1860-1861 that led to the formation of the Confederacy and the beginnings of the Civil War |
| Confederate | a supporter or soldier of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War |
| Confederacy | the 11 Southern States that withdrew from the Union in 1860-1861 forming an alliance and creating their own confederate flag |
| Civil War 1861-1865 | The war between the northern and southern states over issues surrounding slavery and maintaining the balance of power and states in the Union. |
| Fort Sumter | The Confederacy attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War |
| Emanicpation Proclamation | the declaration made by President Lincoln that freed the slaves in the Confederacy |
| Gettysburg Address | a speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Reconstruction | the government's effort to rebuild the South after the Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the United States. Emancipated the African American slaves in 1863 |
| 13 Amendment | an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitutution |
| Black Codes | Southern laws that severly limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War |
| 15th Amendment | an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to re-assert white supremacy by means of violence |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and organization founded in 1909 to work toward equal rights for African Americans |
