Causes of Civil War

4. Proclamation Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
7. War channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
9. unfair treatment of particular groups
13. Plan a Union military plan for defeating the South by dividing the Confederacy in two
14. murder of a public figure by surprise attack
16. Northern states
19. The ideas that states, not federal government, should make final decisions that affect them.
21. Tom's Cabin
22. War A war between people of the same country.
23. A system of required military service

1. Compromise "Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
2. Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
3. Compromise of 1850 (The Great Compromise) California enters as a a free state
5. someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end slavery
6. A closing off of an area to keep people or supplies from going in or out
8. Cotton cotton and cotton-growing considered, in the pre-Civil War South, as a vital commodity, the major factor not only in the economy but also in politics.
10. by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
11. tax on imported goods
12. loyalty to one part of the country
15. overeignty the right of people to make political decisions for themselves
17. series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South
18. Slave Law this law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.
20. To leave or withdraw