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>Sectionalism - Sectionalism is to develop a distinct identity based on ethnicity, customs, laws, language, economics, or culture. >Popular sovereignty - said that the people of each territory should be able to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed in their territory when it became a state. >Compromise of 1850 - California became a free state; Texas received financial assistance for giving up land west of the Rio Grande to what is now New Mexico; the territory of New Mexico was created without any slavery to be illigal; the slave trade ended in the District of Columbia; and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed (nobody could help slaves run away from their owners and slaves could be arrested in states that didn't permit slavery in them) >Fugitives Slave Act - An act that prevented anyone from helping slaves to escape from their owners and allowed slaves to be arrested in states where slavery is illigal. >Fredrick Douglas - Abolitionist speaker who escaped from slavery. >John Calhoun - John C. Calhoun (born 1869) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a city councillor in Edmonton. >Harriet Beecher Stowe - An abolitionist writer who wrote powerful novels attacking slavery both before and after the Civil War. >Abolitionist - Someone who is against slavery. >Kansas-Nebraska Act - In United States history, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, removed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to decide if they would allow slavery in their territories. >"Bleeding Kansas" - Term for the bloody fighting that broke out in Kansas Territory in the years after 1854 over whether slavery should be allowed or not there. >John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre - The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence (Kansas) by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a group of abolitionist settlers (some of the members of the Pottawatomie Rifles) killed five pro-slavery settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. >Sumner vs. Brooks "Steel Cage Match" - Sumner gives a speech about Slavery, Brooks challenges that speech with his own >Dred Scott - a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott vs. Sandford case of 1857. >John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry - On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and several followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The actions of Brown's men brought national attention to the emotional divisions concerning slavery. >Election of 1860 - Abe Lincoln is elected as 16th President of the United States >Lincoln's Views on Slavery - Abe didn't approve of slavery, but he knew that blacks and whites could not live equally because of their "grudges" toward eachother. >South Carolina's Secession >Confederate States of America - formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern states of the United States of America that had declared their secession. >Jefferson Davis - Davis: American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889) >Fort Sumter - Fort Sumter, a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, was named after General Thomas Sumter. >Border States - Border states refers to the five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia which bordered a free state and were aligned with the Union. >Names for the North - >Advantages and Disadvantages for the North - >War Strategies for the North -