Countdown to Civil War

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Chapter 21: A Dividing Nation

Pages 410 to 417

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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

Abraham Lincoln

The Election of 1860

The South secedes

The War Begins  on April 12 1861: Fort Sumter

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Causes of the Civil War

John Brown's Raid

Election of 1860

Lincoln - Douglas Debates