Emancipation Proclamation
16th President of the United States. His election in 1860 caused the Southern States to secede from Union
Abraham Lincoln
– gold discovery in 1849. Prompting the debate of slavery in Union
California Gold Rush
The agreement that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It was meant to keep the balance of free and slave state
Missouri Compromise
Abolitionist
“before war”
Antebellum
when two parties would meet and give and take to come to an agreement
Compromise
To break away from the Union
Secede
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
stated that Georgia would remain in the Union as long as the Fugitive Slave Act would be enforced
Georgia Platform
Fugitive Slave Act
Civil War
Northern abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Confederate States of America
Popular Sovereignty
Wilmont Provost
Compromise of 1850
Sectionalism
The Northern plan that was meant to strangle the South and cut off trade with other countries
Anaconda Plan
Where the state has the right to decide on a particular issue
States Rights
The blocking of Southern ports from trading
Blockade
– to end slavery
Abolition
Alexander Stephens
– to say its not valid
Nullify
Harper's Ferry