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| Laws passed to regulate the treatment of slaves. Ex. no religion, no education, no marraige, no travel |
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| A series of escape routes and homes used to help slaves escape to the North. |
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| A person who worked to end slavery. |
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| Placing the interests of your own section/region of your country before the interests of the whole nation. |
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| Belief that the states had the right to judge when the Federal Government had passed an unconstitutional law and not obey it! |
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| to withdraw; Southern States LEAVE the Union |
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| The United States of America (or in the Civil War: the Northern States) |
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| Confederate States of America-> formed in 1861 by the Southern States after they left the Union. |
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| when a nation fights itself |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| A law written by President Lincoln that made slavery illegal. |
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| Speech given by President Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg (a Union Victory). |
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| THe time period after the Civil War where the U.S. passed laws used to readmit the Southern States. |
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| 1820- law passed that kept equal ower in Congress between free and slave states; also made slavery illegal noth of the 36o 30' parallel. |
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| 1850 law passed that helped catch runaway slaves. |
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| 1854 law that gave Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery (popular sovereignty). |
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| Caifornia was allowed into the U.S. as a free state (helped the North) and the South got the Fugitive Slave LAw |
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