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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 rights to decide whether to allow slavery.
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Henry Clay
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A lawyer, politican and skilled orator who represented Kentucky seperately in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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Fort Sumter
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A federal fort located in the harbor of Charlesston, 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 ileagal.
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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 mill.
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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 used by which the Union proposed to defeat the confederacy in the civil war.
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Minnie ball
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A bullet with a hollow base
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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 to recapture runaway slaves
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Dred Scott vs Sanford
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It was a case where Dred Scott was sued for his freedom.
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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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Secede
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to withdraw
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cofederate states of america
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the confederation created after the south seceded.
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Cavalry
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Solders on horseback
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