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Free-soil party
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a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
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Missouri compromise 1820
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a series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.
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Compromise 1850
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a series of Congressional laws intened to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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Uncle Tom's cabin
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a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
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fugitive slave act
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an 1850 law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
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dred scott v. sanford
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an 1856 supreme court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in territories where slavery was illegal; the court ruled against Scott.
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Harpers Ferry
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a ferderal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during a slave revolt
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fort sumter
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a federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the civil war.
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border states
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a slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal
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king cotton
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cotton was called king because cotton was important to the world market, and the south grew most of the cotton for europes mills.
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blockade
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when armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area.
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anaconda plan
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a strategy by which the union proposed to defeat the confederacy in the civil war.
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minie ball
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a bullet with a hollow base.
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secede
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to withdraw
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confederate states of america
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the confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union
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cavalry
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soldiers on horseback.
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