civil war

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  1. 3. Compromise/A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of power.
  2. 4. three minute speech inspired the North to keep fighting for a united country and the end of slavery.
  3. 7. Tom's Cabin/Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.
  4. 8. of Gettysburg/Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
  5. 13. Act/A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
  6. 15. states/Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).
  7. 16. Scott Decision/U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves (Dred Scott) could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
  8. 18. Davis/President of the Confederacy; born in Kentucky; for slavery; believed states had the right to leave the Union
  9. 19. Proclamation/
  10. 21. for the South; got his nickname because he refused to retreat during battle - he held his position like a stone wall.
  11. 22. freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
  12. 23. Address/Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
  13. 24. United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
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  1. 1. Ferry/Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
  2. 2. southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
  3. 5. of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
  4. 6. stopped the South's advance in the North
  5. 9. Southern states seceded from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the Civil War.
  6. 10. leave or withdraw
  7. 11. Sumter/Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
  8. 12. erupted when people from Missouri crossed into Kansas to vote for slavery then went back to Missouri
  9. 14. clad/ship made of iron
  10. 17. Lincoln/President of the United States of America during the Civil War; born in Kentucky; helped preserve the United States by leading the country in the defeat of the Confederacy; against slavery; freed slaves; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  11. 20. did not call for abolition (free all slaves) at the beginning of the war because these states had slaves and would fight for the Union.