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- 8. Act 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
- 9. (1856) Term that described the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war between abolitionists and pro-slavery border ruffians erupted in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
- 12. A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort
- 13. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. During sectionalism, this specifically pertains to the idea that residents of new states should decide if slavery should be permitted or not.
- 14. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
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- 1. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
- 2. Decision A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
- 3. A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
- 4. ___________Plan Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south
- 5. 's_______________March to the Sea 1864 during the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way.
- 6. __________ Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
- 7. ____________Address (1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights
- 10. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
- 11. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.