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17 Cards in this Set
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Free Soil Party
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a political party dedicatied 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 between slave states and free states
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Compromise 1850
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a series of Congressional laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
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Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
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an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebrasa 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 18552 that portratyed slavery as brutal and immoral
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Fugitive Slave Act
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an 1850 law to help slaveholder recature 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 terrritories where slavery was illegal the court ruled against Scott.
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Harpers Ferry
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a federal 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 habor of Charleston,SC the southern attack on Fort Sumter marked the begiinning of the Civil War.
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Border states
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a slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illgeal
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King cotton
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cotton was called king because cotton was important to world market and the south grew the most of the cotton for Europe's 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 Confedarcy 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 withdrawl
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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 Union
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Cavalry
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soilders on horseback
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