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- Initially, Abraham Lincoln ran on the platform that he wanted to do this to slavery.
- Which group was left out of the celebration of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
- This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state as well as created an imaginary line at 36°30′ that banned slavery in the territories above the line.
- He was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry that lead to him being sentenced to death. The North saw him as a hero/martyr and the South saw him as a traitor.
- An African-American social reformer, writer and statesmen who escaped from slavery and became a prominent leader of an abolitionist movement.
- This law upset the north and increased abolitionism in the north because this law was inhumane and it took away any chances for slaves to become free in the north.
- This law broke the compromise of 1820, which did not allow slaves above the 36-30 line. So many people thought that they could ignore the laws.
- The Supreme Court's ruling (African Americans are not citizens) divided the nation and increased abolitionism in the north.
- This compromise upset the North because it intensified the Fugitive Slave Act, which took away any chance for a slave to become free in the North.
- The Southern economy was based on agriculture, whereas the northern economy was based on this.
- This refers to the idea that the North and South were developing in isolation of one another and developing loyalty to their respective parts rather than to the country as a whole.
- The South began to lose crucial votes in this as the population decreased.
- She was a public speaker who shared her ideas about abolition and women's rights as outlined in her famed speech, "Ain't I a Woman."
- The North has twice the density of this per square mile as compared to the South.
- Seven out of eight of the military colleges in the country were here.
- 11 Southern states did this before the onset of the Civil War.
- The North and South held vastly different views on this practice.
- This Act caused a violent conflict known as Bleeding Kansas between Free-Soilers (anti-slavery settlers) and Border Ruffians (pro-slavery supporters from Missouri who crossed border to vote illegally in elections).
- This made up more than half of the South's exports.
- Name given to these 5 Slave states that stayed in the Union: Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia