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2. was formed in 1854 in direct response to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, opposed the extension of slavery to any new territories.
7. Northerners were further out-raged when U.S. diplomats in Europe from the South schemed to annex Cuba as a new slave state in a report known as the
13. compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces
14. was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A.
15. the site of the first shots of the Civil War

1. Publications like William Lloyd Garrison’s journal, The Liberator, and a popular book
3. were reformers(often Protestant preachers) who saw slavery as a great moral evil that ought to be abolished.
4. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
5. the single bloodiest day of the Civil War
6. was an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas
8. Douglas said a territory could prevent slavery by failing to pass favorable legislation
9. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
10. describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854
11. plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces
12. Sherman's forces destroyed all Confederate sources of supply by looting and burn-ing farms and tearing up railroad lines;