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Causes of Civil War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | loyalty to one's own region of section of the country |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1952 anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, showed horrors of slavery to the North |
| Bleeding Kansas | series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory between 1854-1859 (pro vs anti slavery) |
| Dred Scott Decision | 1857 Supreme Court Case said that African Americans were not citizens, and Congress could not ban slavery in US territories |
| John Brown's Raid | 1959 raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, let by John Brown - tried to start armed slave revolt |
| Secession | withdrawal of a state from the UnionUnited States |
| Election of 1860 | won by Abraham Lincoln, served as a trigger for secession of Southern States |