| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Free state | a state in which slavery was not allowed |
| slave state | a state in which salvery was allowed |
| states' right | the idea that states have the right to make choices about issued that affect them |
| Missouri compromise | a law that allowed Missouri to become a slave state if Maine became a free state and that made a line to determine future free and slave states |
| Fugitive Slave Law | a law that said runaway slaves must be returned to their owners. |
| Kansa-Nebraska Act | and act that let people in Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory decide on wether they wanted to allow slavery. |
| secede | to break away from the government of the rest of the country |
| Union | that states that remained loyal to the United States government |
| Confederacy | the government of the states that seceded from the uNited States |
| border state | a state located between the Union and Confederate states |
| civil war | a war between people of the same country |
| Sectionalism | is a loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than the whole country. |
| Point of view | is the way a person looks at or thinks about a topic or situation. |
| Slave Codes | ro laws to control the behavior of slaves, also made life difficult for them. |
| Underground Railroad | The underground Railroad was an organized, secret system set up to hel enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada. |
| Nat Turner | Lead a rebellion in Virginia |
| Harriet Tubman | Known as the most famous conductor she scaped from slavery and came back to the south 19 times to lead more than 300 people, including her mother and father, to freedom. |
| John C. Calhoun | A leader of the Southerners in the Senate. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | He describe the cruelties of slavery on his novel, the novel helped people understand about slavery, winning over many people to the abolitionist cause. |
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