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17 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism
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a loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country
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Slave codes
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laws to control the behavior of salves and also made life difficult for them
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Underground Railroad
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an organized secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
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a compromise between North & South to allow Missouri to join as a slave state/Maine as a free state keeping the same number of states free/Slave. Also, set a line for free states to the north and slave states to the South.
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Compromise of 1850
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California became a free state making the free vs slave state ratio unbalanced. South got "Fugitive Slave Law"
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Fugitive Slave Law
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escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners even if the slaves had reached free states. Established in Compromise of 1850
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Compromise to allow Kansas & Nebraska each decide if they want slavery. Nebraska=free Kansas=slavery-but non-residents of Kansas voted
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Henry Clay
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Called "The great compromiser" urged the solution called the Missouri Compromise
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John C Calhoun
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SC senator-was a believe in state's rights-idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them-wanted to keep union together-supported Missouri Compromise & Compromise of 1850
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Daniel Webster
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Massachusetts senator supported the Compromise of 1850
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Stephen Douglas
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Illinois senator-proposed the compromise in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Ran against/won senate election against Lincoln. Great speaker
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Dred Scott
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a slave that lived in a slave state, then free state, then slave state. Claimed to be free when his owner died. Case went to supreme court who decided he "had no rights" because African Americans were not citizens of the US.
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Secede
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breakaway-Southern states believed the south should secede-especially after Lincolns election-a supporter of free men
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Confederacy
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Southern states that seceded from the nation in 1861 and formed a government called Confederacy States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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Elected president of of Confederacy States of America
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Union
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States that remained loyal to the United States government
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Fort Sumter
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a fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The site where the first shots of the civil war were fired
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