# data[].attributes.body
South Carolinians who supported staying with the Union.

# data[].attributes.body
Election for President of the United States that was won by Abraham Lincoln, split up the Democratic Party, and caused South Carolina to secede.

# data[].attributes.body
South Carolinians that believed that seceding from the Union was the only was to preserve their culture.

# data[].attributes.body
South Carolinians who wanted to secede as a last resort.

# data[].attributes.body
Documents that said that South Carolina felt the rights had not and would not be protected by the government, and this was when South Carolina officially seceded from the United States.

# data[].attributes.body
Armed slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia led by abolitionist John Brown.

# data[].attributes.body
Abolitionist who lead the Raid on Harpers Ferry.

# data[].attributes.body
16th president of the United States elected in 1860. He was a Republican that campaigned on the platform of "free soil". His election caused South Carolina to secede.

# data[].attributes.body
Dred Scott was a slave that sued his master saying that he was free because he was in a free state.Ruling by the Supreme Court that slaves were considered property and that they had no rights.

# data[].attributes.body
People who believed that slavery should not be spread to further states.

# data[].attributes.body
Conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery citizens in Kansas to try to get it to be free or to be slave.

# data[].attributes.body
Law that allowed owners to recapture an escaped slave, even if they were in a free state.

# data[].attributes.body
Result of westward expansion. Repealed the 36 30' line and let the people of the states decide whether to be free or slave.

# data[].attributes.body
Compromise that allowed California to be a free state, allowed the Mexican Cession states to decide whether to be free or slave, and outlawed slave trade in Washington DC.

# data[].attributes.body
War between United States and Mexico that lasted from 1846-1848. The United States gained California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona.

# data[].attributes.body
Bill passed by President Andrew Jackson that let him use military force against South Carolina. Nullified by South Carolina.

# data[].attributes.body
Senator for South Carolina that believed in state rights and also believed that states could nullify unconstitutional laws. Resigned from vice president.

# data[].attributes.body
A tariff that protects an industry.

# data[].attributes.body
A dispute between Andrew Jackson and the federal government the South Carolina government over the Tariff of Abominations.

# data[].attributes.body
Compromise that used the 36 30' latitude line to determine whether a state became a free state or a slave state. Missouri was made a slave state and Maine was made a free state.

# data[].attributes.headline
Unit VIII: Road to the Civil War Vocabulary

# data[].attributes.subject
Unit VIII: Road to the Civil War Vocabulary