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Learning Target: I will be able to list the main causes that led up to the American Civil War.
Important Vocabulary:
Representatives - member of the House of Representatives in Congress where membership is based on a state’s population.
Senators - member of the Senate in Congress where each state has two senators.
Congress - the legislative branch of the U.S. government where bills are debated and laws made.
Missouri Compromise of 1820 - law that tried to address growing tensions over the issue of slavery which admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.
Compromise of 1850 - several laws passed to address the spread of slavery into western states; it allowed California to be admitted into the Union as a free state, and allowed new states to determine for themselves on whether to allow slavery or not.
Kansas-Nebraska Act - an 1854 bill that allowed settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether slavery would be allowed within its borders that resulted in widespread violence over the issue.
Fugitive Slave Act - required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
Dred Scott v. Sanford - A US Supreme Court decision in 1857 that a slave was not a citizen and could not begin a legal case against anyone.
Abolitionist - a person who wanted to end slavery.
Union - name popular in the 1800s describing the union between the states in the United States of America.
Confederate States of America - rebel states that separated from the United States leading to the American Civil War.
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