Missouri Compromise - An effort to avoid conflict and retain a balance between free and slave states in Congress in 1820, Compromise of 1850 - A congressional act that added California to the Union as a free state, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, and provided for popular sovereignty in the New Mexico territory , Fugitive Slave Act - A law that required the capture and return of runaway slaves, Uncle Tom's Cabin - A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, convinced many northerners to have strong views on abolition, Kansas Nebraska Act - Required popular sovereignty would determine whether the region was free or slave, led to much violence, Dred Scott v Sandford - Supreme Court ruled that slaves cannot sue because they they are not considered citizens, and are “property”, Election of 1860 - The Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the US without any southern support, The Union - The name for the many states that stayed loyal to the United States, often referred to as the North, Secede - To separate, break apart from the whole, dissolve political ties,

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