Civil War

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  1. 5. sovereignty the idea that political
  2. 6. a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole
  3. 8. Proviso a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession;passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate
  4. 9. to formally withdraw from the Union
  5. 12. sumter a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
  6. 13. Tom’s Cabin an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause
  7. 15. burn Enslaved African American, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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  1. 1. Slave Act a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders
  2. 2. Harriet Beecher American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
  3. 3. party a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue
  4. 4. Winfield American general, he served as commander in the Mexican War and used a two-part strategy against the South in the Civil War; he wanted to destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade and gain control of the Mississippi River.
  5. 7. state Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War
  6. 10. of 1850 Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
  7. 11. belong to the people
  8. 14. diplomacy Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War