| A | B |
|---|
| tariff | tax on goods coming into the country |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Life in the North | Factories, skilled workers, trade unions |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin |
| Cottin Engine | Led to a large increase in cotton production |
| Cotton Kingdom | Area of land from South Carolina to Texas |
| Life in the South | Planters, farmers, slaves |
| abolitionists | Reformers who spoke out against slavery |
| Underground Railroad | "Conductors" guided runaway slaves to secret "stations" |
| Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave; conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | opened the possibility of new slave states in the West |
| Missouri Compromise | In 1820 Missour joined as a slave state and Maine joined as a free state |
| Compromise of 1850 | California joins the Union as a free state |
| popular sovereignty | Control by the people |
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | Requires all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. |
| Free Soil party | Its main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| secede | withdraw from membership |
| Dred Scott | A slave who asked for freedom because he temporarily lived in a free state |
| Abraham Lincoln | Believed slavery to be morally wrong |
| Jefferson Davis | Named president of the Confederacy |
| Sectionalism | People feel more loyal to their state/section rather than the country |
| South | Believed in states' rights |
| Civil War | Began in 1861 |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slaved who escaped to New York |
| North | For protective tariffs |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Most influential book in American history |
| Representation | Each newly admitted state brought this with it |
| New Mexico and Utah | Slavery would be determined by popular sovereignty |
| California | Asked to be admitted as a free state in 1850 |
| South | Against protective tariffs |
| Maine | This state was admitted as a free state in the Missouri Comp |
| Rural area | Sparsley populated, countryside |
| Urban | large population, cities |
| Senate | Branch of Congress that has two members from each state |
| House of Representatives | Number of representatives from each state in this branch of Congress is based on population |
