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21 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism
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feeling of greatness to a section and not the whole country
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Popular Sovereignty
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the right of residence of these territories to vote themselves on the issue of slavery
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Expansion of Slavery 1850's-1860's
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this was issue because the North did not want the new states to become slave states, but southern states wanted them to
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Issue when a territory wanted to become admitted to the union
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the Congress had to decide how many people were in a state to see if this section could become a state
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Provisions of the Missouri Compromise 1820
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free states had to stay above the latitude of 36x30 degrees
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California joined the Union
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it was the 31st state on September 9th,1850
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Provisions of the Compromise of 1850
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California was to be admitted to the Union as a free state, the remainder of the south western territories could be open to slavery by popular sovereignty
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Fugitive Slave Law
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southerners captured escaped slaves and returned them to their owner
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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more people entered the state because of popular sovereignty
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John Brown and slavery
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he wanted to use violence to abolish slavery
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Southerns feeling about slavery
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southerners felt that slaves had to do their work because they were not equal
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Importance of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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a book that had stories about ending slavery
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
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the Supreme Court ruling was that Dred Scott would be a slave no matter what state he was in
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President in 1860
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Abraham Lincoln
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Southern state secede in 1860
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southern states did not like Lincoln and they wanted to keep slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper The Liberator
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he wanted to end slavery so he wrote about it and showed people in the both the North and the South
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Published the North Star
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Frederick Douglas
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Underground Railroad
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helped free slaves from plantations and bring them into free states
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First state to secede from the union
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South Carolina
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Fort Sumter
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a southern fort ran out of supplies so Abraham Lincoln gave them what they needed so they would not break away from the states
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Lincoln's main goal at the start of the Civil War
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to keep both the north and south together
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