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Union is the term used to describe the Northern and Western states that fought against the Confederacy or Southern states, during the US Civil War

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uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published in serial form in 1851 and 1852

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An American slave state was any one of the 15 states in which slavery was legal prior to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Slave codes were laws drafted by individual states and colonies in the South

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The term segregation means separation It is usually used to describe the forced separation of people by race

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Secession is the act of seceding, or formally breaking away from an organization

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Secession is the act of seceding,or formally breaking away from an organization

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A plantation is a large government-owned or privately-owned estate or farm where a single commercial crop is grown

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The overseer on a slave plantation was responsible for making sure all the enslaved people did the work expected of them

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From the time humans developed spoken language, they began telling stories about themselves

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Nat Turner, born into slavery in 1800 was an African American who led the most effective slave rebellion in American history

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John Brown was an abolitionist who took extreme measures to fight against slavery and became a martyr to his cause

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Fugitive slave laws were introduced to outline the procedures requirements, and punishments related to the return of escaped slaves to their owners

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The term free state was used in the 1800s to refer to U.S. states that did not allow slavery

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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in about 1818

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mancipation is the act of freeing someone from another person’s control as in freeing someone from slavery

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Dred Scott was an African American man whose status as free or enslaved was decided by the Supreme Court in 1857

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Discrimination is treating people unfairly or unequally because of characteristics such as race age nation of origin or religion

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A civil war is a war between two different groups of citizens of the same country that are both trying to gain control of the government

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A confederacy is a term describing a union of states or nations that does not have a strong central government

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The Compromise of 1850 was a group of laws that Congress passed in 1850

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A military blockade is an act of war. Ships, troops,or aircraft may be used to prevent people supplies,or other materials from leaving or entering an enemy country

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Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States, was born in 1809 in Kentucky

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Abolition means doing away with or ending something