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Civil War
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16
History
7th Grade
10/15/2010

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Slave Codes
Definition
Laws passed to regulate the treatment of slaves. Ex. no religion, no education, no marraige, no travel
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Underground Railroad
Definition
A series of escape routes and homes used to help slaves escape to the North.
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Abolitionist
Definition
A person who worked to end slavery.
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Sectionalism
Definition
Placing the interests of your own section/region of your country before the interests of the whole nation.
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States' Rights
Definition
Belief that the states had the right to judge when the Federal Government had passed an unconstitutional law and not obey it!
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Secede (secession)
Definition
to withdraw; Southern States LEAVE the Union
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Union
Definition
The United States of America (or in the Civil War: the Northern States)
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Confederacy
Definition
Confederate States of America-> formed in 1861 by the Southern States after they left the Union.
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Civil War
Definition
when a nation fights itself
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
A law written by President Lincoln that made slavery illegal.
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Gettysburg Address
Definition
Speech given by President Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg (a Union Victory).
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Reconstruction
Definition
THe time period after the Civil War where the U.S. passed laws used to readmit the Southern States.
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Missouri Compromise
Definition
1820- law passed that kept equal ower in Congress between free and slave states; also made slavery illegal noth of the 36o 30' parallel.
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Fugitive Slave Law
Definition
1850 law passed that helped catch runaway slaves.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1854 law that gave Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery (popular sovereignty).
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
Caifornia was allowed into the U.S. as a free state (helped the North) and the South got the Fugitive Slave LAw
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