SECTIONALISM, Loyalty to your region, not the whole nation., COTTON GIN, Machine that cleaned cotton quickly and increased slavery., FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT, Law requiring runaway slaves be returned., ABOLITIONIST, Someone who want to abolish or end slavery, DRED SCOTT, Enslaved man who sued for freedom. Supreme Court denied him., KING COTTON, Idea that cotton ruled the Southern economy., POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, People in a territory vote on slavery., SECESSION, Leaving the United States., FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Former slave who became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer..

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