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Abolitionist One who sought to outlaw slavery

Plantation system economy which is based on agricultural mass production, consists of large farms which use slave labor to cultivate cash crops to be exported. large scale farm on which cash crops were grown – depended on slaves to provide labor

Slavery system where an individual is owned by another person

Antebellum belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

Underground Railroad secret system of escape routes used by slaves to reach the free states in the North

Cotton gin machine which separates cotton fibers from the seeds Invented by Eli Whitney

Slave codes Series of laws passed in colonial America to control the movement/actions of slaves

Sectionalism devotion to local interests, advocacy of sectional concerns loyalty to one’s local area as opposed to the nation

Slave state States that allowed slavery

Demark Vesey Insurrection A former slave who planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States. Word of the plans was leaked, and Charleston, South Carolina, authorities arrested the plot's leaders before the uprising could begin. Vesey and others were tried, convicted and executed

Nullification a legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional

Free State states that could not have slaves

Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery, in the name of popular sovereignty or rule of the people

Missouri Compromise an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro- slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.

Tariff of 1832 a protectionist tariff in the United States. It was passed as a reduced tariff to remedy the conflict created by the tariff of 1828, but it was still deemed unsatisfactory by southerners and other groups hurt by high tariff rates

Compromise of 1850 a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War (1846–48). The five laws balanced the interests of the slave states of the South and the free states

Dred Scott slave who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to achieve freedom (lost the case in a court decision that sparked major controversy between the northern and southern USA)

Planters owner of a plantation

States’ rights political belief that the federal government should not interfere with the decision-making and freedoms of individual states the right of a state to nullify a federal law that it deems harmful to the interest of the state

Popular sovereignty settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery

Louisiana Purchases In 1803, the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France. James Madison, the U.S. Secretary of State, paid 15 million dollars for the land. The Louisiana Territory included much of what is now central United States. It stretched from New Orleans in the south to the Canadian border in the north. And it stretched from the Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the West.

Fugitive Slave Law Laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.