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| loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country |
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| laws to control the behavior of slaves;slaves were not allowed to own property, buy or sell goods, or hit a white person in self-defense |
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| leader of a failed slave rebellion in Virginia |
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| slave ship that the slaves seized control of and gained their freedom |
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| organized secret system set up to help slaves escape from the South to freedom |
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| escaped slave who became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading 300 people to freedom |
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| Levi and Catherine Coffin |
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| teachers of a school for slaves who became conductors of the Underground Railroad |
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| state in which slavery was not allowed |
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| state in which slavery was allowed |
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| S.C. leader who believed in states' rights; the said slavery should be legal if that state wanted it to be |
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| the idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them |
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| Senator who became known as the "Great Compromiser" because of his efforts to find a solution to the slave state/free state issue |
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| compromise in which Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state, keeping the balance between free and slave states |
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| law that said that escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners |
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| Henry Clay's plan to all California to become a free state in exchange for passing the Fugitive Slave Law |
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| Senator who said the people of the Nebraska Territory and the Kansas Territory should decide whether to be free or slave states |
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| compromise in which the people of each territory chose whether to be a free or slave state; this led to "bleeding Kansas" |
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| author whose novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," changed many people's minds about slavery |
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| abolitionist who led an unsuccessful raid on an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to get weapons for a slave rebellion |
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| Republican candidate for Senator from Illinois who believed that slavery was wrong and should not be the state's choice |
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| the Confederate States of America (CSA); government for the southern states that seceded from the US |
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| to break away; South Carolina was the first state to do this |
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| states that remained loyal to the US |
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| Union fort in Charleston harbor where the first fighting of the Civil War took place |
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| states between the Union and Confederacy; Lincoln wanted to keep them in the Union |
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| war between people of the same country |
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