Civil War

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  1. 3. The 16th president of the United States, Lincoln preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people.
  2. 5. election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon Lincoln’s election Southern states seceded from the Union.
  3. 8. the belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the national government.
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  1. 1. compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
  2. 2. Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved people were not citizens of the United States.
  3. 4. the act of making legally null and void
  4. 6. the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
  5. 7. machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly removed seeds from the cotton fibers.