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SS.Vocab Cards
Civil war
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Brown | An abolishionist who lead a raid on an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| Civil War | A war between the people of the same country |
| Compromise of 1850 | A law that allowed California to become a free state in return the Northern states had to pass the Fugitive Slave law |
| Free State | A state which slavery was not allowed |
| Fugitive Slave Law | A law that passed in 1850 that sad escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners even if they reached a free state |
| Cofederacy | The government of the states that secede from the United States |
| Secede | To break away from the government or the rest of the country |
| Slave Codes | Laws that were designed to control the behavior of slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about the cruelties of slavery |
| Border state |