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The word union was a term that described the Northern and Western states that fought against the Confederacy, or Southern states in the Civil War.

The Northern and Western created a Union to fight against the Southern states.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that tells the story of the hardship that enslaved people faced. By personalizing the story of slavery and showing the impact of families faced, it influenced many Americans to oppose slavery.

The story, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was one of the factors hat contributed o the tension and sectionalism between the North and the South before the Civil War.

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An American slave state was any one of the 15 states that slavery was legal prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. These states were Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Slave states were all the states in the South that allowed slavery.

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Slave codes we laws that were designed by individual states and colonies on the South. These laws would vary from state to state.

Many states in the South would design laws for slaves called slave coded

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Segregation is a term that means separation. It was usually used to describe the force separation of people by race.

People with different skin color were separated or segregation to those who were white.

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Sectionalism is where you're extremely loyal to one section, religion, person, or country.

Sectionalism grew very strong in the United States during the mid-1800s.

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A secession is the act of breaking away from an organization.

11 states form the U.S. seceded from the United States to form a Confederate State of America.

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

The people that work on plantations usually live on the grounds and are unskilled or semi-skilled.

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An overseer was responsible for making sure all the enslaved people did the work they were supposed to do.

If an enslave is caught not doing the work they are supposed to do the overseer cou punish them.

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The stories that happened in the past that are passed down from one person to another and from one generation to another are called oral traditions.

The stories that our grandparents tells us about there parents are called oral tradition.

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Nat Turner was a African American who was born into slavery in 1800. He led the most effective slave rebellion in American history. Approximately 75 other African Americans join in the rebellion. They murdered 60 white men in two days and nights. He was sold twice as a young man to different plantations.

Nat Turner was a African American who thought slavery shouldn't exist so he started a rebellion.

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John Brown was an abolitionist who took extreme measures and lead a group of African American and white men on a raid to fight for slavery to end.

John Brown led a raid of American American and white men to fight for slavery to end.

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The fugitive slave laws was laws that escaped slaves were captured and returned to their owners.

The slaves that escaped could get captured and returned to their owner, if they were found, because of the fugitive slave laws.

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

The states in the Northeast were the free states and the states in the Southeast were the slave states.

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In 1818 Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland. He learned how to read, which was illegal. When he was about 20 years old he escaped Massachusetts. He was soon asked to speak at an antislavery convention.

Fredrick Douglass was an escaped slave who was illegally able read.

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Emancipation is the act of freeing someone from another person.

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to set slaves free from their owners.

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Dred Scott was an African American man who was free from slavery because he tried to sue his family for freedom after his owner, John Emerson passed away. That case then was sent to the Supreme Court which then they decided he was an legally enslave.

Dred Scott was, at first, property until he tried to sue his family which then he became an enslave.

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Discrimination is were people are being treated unfairly or unequally because of their characteristics such as race,age,nation of origin,or religion.

Many African Americans had to deal with discrimination because if their race,

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The Civil War was a war between two different states from the same country.

The Civil War was between the North and the South of America over slavery.

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Confederacy is a term use to describe a state or nation with a strong central government. Confederacy is another name for the Confederate State of America.

If a state or nation has a strong central government is may be know as a confederacy state.

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In 1850 Congress passed a group of laws that was called the Compromise of 1850. I helped determine whether or not if the western states would have slavery.

The Compromise of 1850 helped settle if slavery would spread into the western states.

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A military blockade is an act of war that uses ships, troops, or aircraft to stop people, supplies, or other materials from entering or leaving the country. A naval blockade uses a fleet of ships that surrounds an enemy's port or coastline. A land blockade uses military and troop vehicles, and an air blockade uses aircraft and troops.

A blockade happened during World War 11 to force the United States, Britain and France to blockade roads, waterways, and railroads.

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In 1858 Lincoln ran for Senate and lost but he gained national prominence in the newly formed Republican Party, which wanted to end slavery. In 1860 he was elected to be the 16th president of the United States. After the election, 11 states left the Union and the Civil War began.

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president and ended slavery for the United States.

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Abolition means to end something. During slavery they made a movement to end slavery and slave trade.

The South states soon couldn't have slavery due to the Abolition movement.