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| Henry Clay | proposed the Missouri Compromise |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Dred Scott | slave that lost a court case to make him free |
| Abraham Lincoln | republican candidate that won election of 1860 |
| Missouri Compromise | kept number of slave and free states equal |
| slavery | Free Soil Party wanted to ban this in the western territories |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| South Carolina | first state to secede from the Union |
| Mexico | country America fought in 1846 |
| free | California was admitted as a ______ state |
| sectionalism | when you are more loyal to a part of the country instead of the whole country |
| Wilmot Proviso | called on Congress to outlaw slavery in any land won from Mexico |
| stop spread of slavery | main goal of Free Soil party |
| Zachary Taylor | won the election of 1848 |
| popular sovereignty | voters in a territory decide whether or not to allow slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | question of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty |
| John Crittenden | introduced a bill to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific |
| Dred Scott Case | declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
| Missouri Compromise | admitted Missouri as a slave state |
| inflation | economic cycle in which the value of money falls and the prices of goods rise |
| emancipate | set slaves free |
| martial law | rule by the army |
| civilians | people not in the army |
| Emancipation Proclamation | set free slaves in states still in rebellion |
| bounties | payments to men who joined the army |
| Copperheads | people against fighting to keep the South in the Union |
| draft | required by all males between 18 and 45 years old to serve in the military |
| profiteers | overcharged the government for supplies desperately needed for the war |
| civil war | war between people of the same country |
| inflation | rise in prices as a result of an increase in the amount of money in circulation |
| habeas corpus | right to have a trial before being jailed |
| tax in kind | required farmers to turn over one tenth of their crops |
| Republican | new party formed in 1854 whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the west |
| Lincoln became a presidential candidate for election of 1860 | result of Lincoln Douglas debates |
| arsenal | gun warehouse |
| house divided | speech made by Abraham Lincoln warning of problems the nation would face if it was half slave and half free |
| Stephen Douglas | propsed the Kansas Nebraska Act |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate Forces at end of war |
| George McClellan | Commander of Union forces after Bull Run |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of Union forces at end of war |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general who earned his nickname for standing firm at bull Run |
| William Sherman | sent on a march from Atlanta to the sea |
| General Philip Sheridan | general who led Union forces into the Shenandoah Valley |
| Edwin Stanton | Secretary of War under Lincoln |
| Clara Barton | founded the American Red Cross |
| Dorothea Dix | superintendent of army nurses in the north |
| Sally Louisa Tompkins | opened a private hospital in Richmond, Virginia |
| John Brown | abolitionist whose deeds intensified sectional conflict |
| David Wilmot | proposed that slavery be outlawed in land won by Mexico |
| north | section of states Lincoln carried in the election of 1860 that helped him win the war |
| Monitor and Merrimac | changed naval warfare by proving the value of ironclad ships |
| Free Soil Party | party that wanted to stop slavery from spreading to new territories |
| Vicksburg | Battle in which the Union gained control of river traffic on the northern Mississippi |
| Gettysburg Address | urged Americans to overcome all challenges to their freedom |
| Massachusetts | one of the first states to organize all black regiments |
| more soldiers, factories and railroads | advantages of North |
| Bull Run | battle that made both sides realize they needed to train their soldiers |
