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7thSMSChapter 18.1
Term, Person or Place
Definition | Answer |
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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 |