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deadliest war in American history; conflict between north (union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union

-The spreading of settlement to the west

Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election.

Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

A declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property

the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

(AL) , Issued by Abraham Lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle

A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle.

split the Confederacy in two and gave the North control of the Mississippi River.

A moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty.

written by harriet beecher stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.

A person who worked to end slavery.

the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land

Began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.