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7thSMSChapter 18.1
Term, Person or Place
| Definition | Answer |
|---|---|
| one issue that divided the nation along sectional lines | slavery |
| new government formed by theseceding states | Confederate States of America |
| region of the country that had an agricultural economy that used slave labor | South |
| people who wanted to stay in the Union and work out differences over slavery | Unionists |
| argument that held that state power was greater than federal power | states' rights |
| first state to seceed, or withdraw from the Union | South Carolina |
| state that entered the Union in 1845 as a slave state | Texas |
| Supreme Court ruling that stated that African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court | Dred Scott Decision |
| act that made it a crime to assist runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Act |
| Act that allowed the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide whether to be free or slave states | Kansas-Nebraska Act |