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Pre Civil War Vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Missouri Compromise | The compromise in which Missouri would be entered as a slave state, and a new state, whereas /main would be created as a free state |
| abolition | to abolish |
| Wilmot Proviso | designed to eliminate slavery in the land acquired by the Mexican American War |
| California Gold Rush | The event where people moved west to find gold |
| Compromise of 1850 | california would become a free state, left for the Utah, and the New Mexico territories to decide for themselves to be free or not |
| Underground Railroad | the code name for the the operation of the slaves escaping to freedom |
| Dred Scott vs. Sanford | the supreme court ruling in which the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. |
| Harpers Ferry | an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| Abraham Lincoln | the 16th president, and was president during the Civil war |
| Milledgeville | capital of Georgia during the Civil War |
| Jefferson Davis | the president of the Confederate States of America |