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a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West
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a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War
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a warship that's heavily armored with iron
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The 16th president of the US, helped ultimately free the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation
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the freeing of the slaves
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A person whose owned by another person
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an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists' cause
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a complete end to slavery
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the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy
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a law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas
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a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery
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a plan that divided the remainder of the Louisiana purchase into two territories, Nebraska and Kansas, and allow the people in each territory to decide the question of slavery
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a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was the place of the first battle in the Civil War
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a key battle that turned the tide of the war against the Confederates, began on July 1, BattleofShiloh a Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley
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a Union victory in the Civil War that marked bloodiest single day battle in American history
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the Union army's six week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
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a series of Civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital
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an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans
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an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave rebellion
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Virginia's federal arsenal
