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What method did abolitionist use to help slaves escape to the north?
Print, Speeches, Underground Railroad.
Define Sectionalism
Loyal to a specific part instead of the whole.
Define secede.
To break away from
During the Civil War which region of the country seceded from the Union?
South
An escape slave is called a?
Fugitive
Under this government policy the citizens had the right to choose for themselves.
Popular sovereignty
Another word for “to free” is
Emancipate
What is considered to be the “spark” of the civil war?
Firing on fort sumter
The place where General Lee surrendered to Grant at the end of the civil war?
Appomattox Courthouse
Define slave Codes
Laws that defined the status of slaves and the rights and responsibilities of slave owners.
Explain the Missouri Compromise
Main = free, Missouri = slave, 36 30 line north free south slave.
Explain Kansas-Nebraska act.
Allowed states to take a vote to determine if they were going to be free or slave, repealed the Missouri Compromise.
Explain compromise of 1850.
California = free, divided Mexican Cession in two, slave trade ended in D.C, Fugitive slave law passed, settled boarder between Texas and New Mexico.
Explain the fugitive slave law.
Allowed southern plantation owners to kidnap their slaves that had escaped to the Northern free states.
Immediate cause of the southern states seceding.
Election of Abraham Lincoln.
Causes of the civil war
Sectionalism, states rights, slavery, secession
