Countdown to Civil War

Chapter 21: A Dividing Nation
Pages 410 to 417


Terms to know in this chapter:
compromise
slave states or free states
abolitionist
secession
Nat Turner's slave rebellion
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Toms Cabin
Fred Scott Decision
Lincoln - Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid
Stephen Douglas: popular sovereignty
Abraham Lincoln
The Election of 1860
The South secedes
The War Begins  on April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter