Eadie Chapter 16 A Divided Country
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BarbaraEadie on April 21, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abolitionist | people who wanted to abolish or end slavery |
| Underground Railroad | the network of people and places that helped runaway slaves to escape to freedom in the North or Canada |
| Seneca Falls Convention | the world's first women's rights meeting held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 |
| Missouri Compromise | a law passed by Congress in 1820 that created an imaginary line between territories in the West where slavery would be allowed and territories where it wouldn't be allowed |
| Compromise of 1850 | laws passed by Congress providing that California would enter the union as a free state; that people living in other territories would be allowed to decide whether or not they wanted slavery; and that everyone would have to obey the Fugitive Slave Law |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | an 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that attacked slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | law that opened the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to slavery, allowing the people who settled in these territories to decide for themselves whether to form slave or free states |
| Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision of 1857 that said that slavery was legal in any part of the U.S. |
| Confederate States of America | the country formed by the Southern states during the Civil War |
| secession | breaking away or leaving the union |
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