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17 Cards in this Set
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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 of 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 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 book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that outlined the cruelty of slavery and painted slave overseers and owners as evil.
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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 Supreme 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 teh ahrbor 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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Slave states 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 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 Confederacy uring 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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