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Missouri Compromise
Was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. -
Anti-Slavery movement
Abolitionist movement to end slavery -
2nd Great Awakening
Religious revival during early 19th century -
Wilmot Proviso
Unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico -
Compromise of 1850
Helped to solve disputes over slavery, it ended slave trade in Washington, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runaway slaves. -
Underground railroad
How a lot of enslaved Africans got their freedom, it is a network of secret passageways to northern states, or Canada -
Fugitive slave act
This act required slaves to be returned to their owners -
Uncle Tom's cabin
Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created 2 new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty, led up to Bleeding Kansas -
Bleeding Kansas
Violent civil confrontations in the Kansas territory, a war. -
Popular sovereignty
Political doctrine for people of federal territories should decide if their territory would be a free or slave state -
Election of 1860
Presidential election that had issues, such as, slavery, secession, and states' rights -
Southern secession
Civil War in the U.S. between states supporting the federal union, and states that voted to secede and form Confederate States of America, outbreak of Civil War. -
Formation of Confederate States of America
Southern states seceded from the Union, happened right before Civil war
