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Jefferson Davis was a Civil War Confederate leader from West Point to the Southern secession

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Republican for the Illinois Senate and he argued for free soil.

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Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.

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Northerners wanted free soil and a strong national government. Became committed to the free soil movement.

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A political party organized in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery.

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When she became free, she became a lecturer, giving speeches about what it was like to be a slave.

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a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's voting rights movement.

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An author teacher and reformer that helped create institutions for the mentally ill across the United States and in Europe.

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An education reformer. He helped create teacher training and curriculum programs in the 1830's.

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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. Showed slavery as a moral evil and inspired many to join the abolitionist cause.

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Stephen Douglas was an American politician who ran against Abraham Lincoln for Illinois Senate.

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They revealed that some southerners opposed slavery. They were also abolitionists

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An Ex-slave, writer, and abolitionist that published The North Star.

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Formed the American Anti-Slavery Society and published the Liberator.

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Abolitionist were people against slavery. The abolitionist movement grew in the north because they were against slavery.

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Before the war in the North & South.

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John Brown was the leader of an unsuccessful raid on a federal army at Harper's Ferry. He attempted to free the slaves in VA

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Dred scott was a slave who sued for his freedom because his master died while in the North and his wife wanted him to return to the South but he lost because they ruled that slaves would never be citizens.

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Would have outlawed slavery in all Mexican territory. (A failed attempt to stop slavery from spreading)

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A law made so southerners could recapture their slaves that escaped to the North.

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Popular Sovereignty is when the people have the power to vote. The people of the North had the power to vote on whether slavery was going to be outlawed in their region.

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South Carolina was the first to secede (leave) the union in 1860.`

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Tariffs (Taxes) divided the North and the South during the 1830's.

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Sectionalism is when your region comes before your nation. It began in the 1820's and ended by the 1850's

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The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, to improve the production of cotton.