1. The Civil War Taught by : Alison Garaspe Alicia Alameda Sarah Ann Valentini The Civil War By: Sarah Ann Valentni Alison Gorospe Alicia Alameda

2. Sectionalism : The greater loyalty that many Americans felt toward their own section than to the county as a whole.

3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin : book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showing the evils of slavery.

4. Missouri Compromise: admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; prohibited slavery in the lands of Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border (36 30')

5. Compromise of 1850: Clay's plan to keep the balance between free and slave states.

6. 6 Fugitive Slave Law: required northers to return runaway slaves

7. Kansas-Nebraska Act: allowed settlers to decide by popular sovereignty whether they wanted slavery.

8. Dred-Scott v. Sandford: African Americans are not citizens and have no rights; Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

9. John Brown's Raid: slave revolt at Harper's Ferry

10. Republican Party: formed in opposition of spreading slavery to new territories

11. Abraham Lincoln :elected in 1860( 16th President)

12. There was Secession for the Southto leave the Union

13. Fort Sumterstarted the Civil War

14. *Confederate *favored slavery *felt they were fighting a second *war of independence *made living from small farms and plantations *wanted to lower taxes on goods *believed in states' rights SOUTH

15. *Union*Opposed slavery*Felt they were fighting a war to free the slaves*Made living from factories and trade*Wanted to higher taxes on Europeans goods so Southerners would buy Northern products*Believed that the Union must be saved above all else North