| A | B |
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| Protective Tariffs | made the price of imported manufactured goods much more expensive |
| Northern Economy | industrial economy based on manufacturing |
| Southern Economy | agricultural economy consisting of a slavery-based system of plantations |
| Cotton Gin | invention which separates seeds from cotton and increased slavery |
| The Liberator | Abolitionist paper written by William Lloyd Garrison in the North |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | The novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist sentiment written by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave who spoke against the evils of slavery |
| Nat Turner | Led a violent rebellion in Virginia, which resulted in stricter slave codes |
| abolitionist | a person who wants to end slavery |
| Balance of Power | the drive to be sure that there were equal numbers of slave and free states |
| secede | to leave the union |
| States' Rights | Idea that states could nullify national laws |
| Missouri Compromise | drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below |
| Compromise of 1850 | California entered as a free state, while the new Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Gave people in territories the choice whether to allow slavery in their states- led to violence |
| popular sovereignty | right of people to vote to decide the issue of slavery |
| Republican Party | This was founded in the 1850's to oppose the spread of slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | he opposed the extension of slavery, but was not an abolitionist |
| Stephen Douglas | he supported popular sovereignty, but disagreed with slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | fighting erupted over the issue of popular sovereignty in the territories |
| Dred Scott | court ruled that this man was property, not free, and could not be a citizen |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Allowed southerners to hunt for runaway slaves in the north, made it illegal to help slaves escape |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Seneca Falls Declaration | organized statement demanding women's rights, including suffrage |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | one of the women associated with the women's suffrage movement before and after the Civil War |
| Susan B. Anthony | one of the women associated with the women's suffrage movement before and after the Civil War |
| John Brown | Violent abolitionist associated with Bleeding Kansas |
