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8th Civil War
Civil War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agrarian | farming economy |
| Industrial | factory and business economy |
| Cash Crop | Crop sold for money |
| Cotton Gin | a machine used to separate cotton from its seeds |
| The Missouri Compromise | Plan proposed by by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal. |
| The Civil War | War between people of the same the country. The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) was between the Northern states vs. the Southern states. |
| Sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country. |
| Fugitive | runaway |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 | Settlers living in each of the territories would decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty. |
| Popular Sovereignty | idea that the people hold the final authority in government, allowing each territory to decide whether to allow slavery. |
| Bleeding Kansas | became a mini civil-war between pro- and anti slavery people; in the end antislavery settlers would win the population race and vote kansas as a free state in 1861. |
| Compromise of 1850 | California would be admitted as a free state and the territiories of New Mexico and Utah would be oragnized under the principle of popular sovernity and new fugitive slave laws were passed |
| Dred Scott Decision | A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. |
| Arsenal | warehouse for guns and ammunition |
| John Brown | tried to lead a raid in Harpers Ferry by raiding a federal arsenal to supply weapons to slaves and lead them to a revolt. He was captured and sentenced him to death. |
| Harpers Ferry | town in Va. (now WV) that John Brown hoped to attack and get hold of guns and ammo from the federal armory |
| Secede/secession | to withdraw from or formally leave from. |
| Fort Sumter | Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina. Shots were fired from both North and South that help start the Civil War |
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