a lare farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop

the United States; also the Northern States that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War

the right of each United States state to make its own local laws

a situation when groups on each side of an issue each give in a little to reach an agreement

Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)

Satisfy the North, California was admitted as a free state and to satisfy the South, the North agreed to the Fugitive Slave Act

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery

a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas after Kansas voted to allow slavery

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of the newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin that described the cruelties of slavery and convinced many people to oppose it

Abolitionist who spoke against slavery and for the rights of women

An abolitionist who attempted to lead a revolt by capturing an armory in Harper's Ferry and giving weapons to slaves but did not succeed; was captured, tried, and hung for treason

16th President of the United States

Speech made by Abraham Lincoln before he was elected stating that the United States will either be all slave or all free because it can't be half and half and still succeed.

separating from

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

President of the Confederate States of America

A war between people of the same country.