Vocabulary Words
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| Missouri Compromise | An 1820 agreement by congress that sllowed slavery south a line drawn west ward from the southern border of Missouri and forbade slavery north of the line
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| albolitionist | One who wanted to abolish slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
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| Secession | The action taken if a state decided to leave the Union.
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| Compromise of 1850 | An agreement by Congress that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, but guaranteed the protection of slavery with a stronger fugitive slave law that ordered every American citizen to return.
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| Naval blockade | The use of a fleet of ships to prevent ships carrying supplies from reaching ports.
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| Blockade runner | A low-lying steamship paint gray to match the ocean and fool pursuers that was able to slip through the naval blockade.
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| conscript | To force to join the military.
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| buffaloes | A man in the Tidewater region that hid rather than fight for the confederacy.
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| Emancipation Proclamation | A Union general posted the posted the announcement at the right, declared the freedom of enslaved african americans.
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| Dred Scott v. Sanford | The U.S Spreme court delivered a shattering blow to antislavery forces. Scott was a enslaved person once owned by a U.S army doctor. After the army, the doctor lived in Missouri with Scott. Scott argued that he was a free because he lived where slavery wa
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