| A | B |
|---|
| triangular trade | slaves to Americas, cotton to Europe, manufactured items to Africa |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | How much would a slave count in state populations? |
| cotton gin | got the seeds out, led to increase in slavery |
| Missouri Compromise | one slave state, one free state |
| Compromise of 1850 | California a free state, tougher runaway slave law |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | granted popular sovereignty, led to "bleeding" |
| Dred Scott decision | blacks not meant to be citizens |
| Harpers Ferry | John Brown tried to start slave rebellion |
| Underground Railroad | helping slaves to escape |
| Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln became prez |
| secede | to leave the U.S. |
| Confederacy | the 11 states that seceded from U.S. |
| Fort Sumter | in SC - attack on it was beginning of Civil War |
| Harriett Tubman | conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| abolitionist | wanted to end slavery |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| South | believed each state should be able to decide on slavery |
| North | felt that fed govt should have the power in slavery issue |
