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- 4. slave of Dr. John Emerson, sued to be free in a complex court case, case concluded that he was not a free man according to the constitution because he was an African American
- 5. made Lincoln famous and made him a presidential candidate Douglas wanted national slavery and lincoln wanted to abolish it
- 7. part of compromise of 1850, required that slaves be returned to their owners
- 15. Revoked the Missouri compromise, created two new territories (Kansas and Nebraska), produced Bleeding Kansas
- 17. guaranteed the citizens the right to own slaves
- 18. On May 24, 1856 along the Pottawatomie creek Brown and his men killed 5 pro slavery men in Kansas
- 19. Native born white Americans made up about ⅔ of the army's population, most died to disease
- 20. little known politician who became the 14th president
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- 1. abolitionist author who made Uncle Tom's cabin
- 2. state that joined the union with a compromise in 1850
- 3. two armies met along Antietam creek in Maryland and 12,000 casualties happened, single bloodiest battle of the civil war
- 6. battle in 1856 where Kansas had 2 governments and they went to battle
- 8. John Brown attacked this Ferry in 1858 to attack Virginia and seize weapons there
- 9. part of the army during civil war, slaves who if caught trying to escape were harshly delt with
- 10. wanted slavery, ran against Abe Lincoln
- 11. president in 1860, led the nation through the civil war, assassinated on April 14 1865
- 12. worked in farms and factories, didn't fight in the war, did work that men would usually do
- 13. criticized pro slavery in Kansas and was a Senator
- 14. antislavery novel written Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 16. act that allowed California to join the union and many other things
