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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Privoso | 1864 Proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico |
| Free-Soil Party | Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Illinois senator who backed the Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise of 1850 | Series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free and slave states |
| Fugitive of Slave Act | 1850 law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist; author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that showed how brutal and immoral slavery was |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery |
| Republican Party | Political Party formed in 1854 buy opponents of slavery |
| John C. Freemont | Republican presidential candidate in 1856 |
| James Buchanan | Democratic presidential candidate in 1856 |
| Dred Scott V. Sandford | 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued |
| Roger B. Taney | Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Abraham Lincoln | Illinois Republican who ran against Stephen A. Douglas in 1858 |
| Harper Ferry | Federal arsenal in Virginia; captured in 1859 during an antislavery revolt |
| Confederate States of America | confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union |
| Jefferson Davis | Fist President of the CSA |
| Crittenden Compromise | Compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession |
| Fort Sumter | Union Fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina |
| Confederacy | Nation formed by Southern states |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general, commander of the Army of the Northern Virginia |
| border states | slave states that bordered states in which slavery was illegal |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy |
| First Battle of Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War |
| Thomas J. Jackson | Confederate general at Bull Run |
| The Monitor | Union ironclad ship |
| The Merrimack | Confederate ironclad ship, later renamed the Virginia |
| George McClellan | Commander of Union army in the east |
| Ulysses S, Grant | Union general who won battles in the west |
| Battle of Shiloh | Bloody battle in Tennessee won by Grant |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general at Battle of Shiloh |
| David Farragut | Union naval commander who captured New Orleans |
| Seven Days' Battles | Confederate victory in Virginia, during which Lee stopped Union campaign against Richmond |
| Battle of Antietam | Battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North |
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