A Civil War is a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country. In 1861, the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South) parts of America went to war against each other. After 4 years, in 1865, the Union won. Many people died on both sides, and the South suffered terribly. No one expected the Civil War to be long. It became one of the worst wars in American history. The Civil War began at Fort Sumter in 1861. The fort belonged to the North, or the Union, but it was in South Carolina-deep in the South.
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| 1550581933 | Sectional Poloarization | Opposing views on how to settle the issue of slavery. This divided the United States between the North and the South. | 0 | |
| 1550581934 | Popular Sovereignty | The belief that citizens should decide whether to allow slavery or not in an area. | 1 | |
| 1550581935 | Slavery | The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved. | 2 | |
| 1550581936 | Abolitionist | People who worked to end slavery. | 3 | |
| 1550581937 | Monopoly | An economy that is controlled by only one large firm. Ex: The Tea Act during British rule of the English Colonies | 4 | |
| 1550581938 | Free competition | Anyone can enter any area of business if he or she can sell something. | 5 | |
| 1550581939 | Traditional economy | A market focused on producing items important to a specific culture. | 6 | |
| 1550581940 | Antebellum | Occurring before the Civil War | 7 | |
| 1550581941 | Oligopoly | When only a few large firms control the market. | 8 | |
| 1550581942 | Election of 1860 | Lincoln (anti-slavery) beat Breckinridge (pro-slavery) to become President of the United States. This greatly angered the South. | 9 | |
| 1550581943 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right whether to allow slavery. | 10 | |
| 1550581944 | North (Union) | Anti-slavery states. The government and army of the North came to be called the Union during the Civil War. | 11 | |
| 1550581945 | South (Confederacy) | Pro-slavery states. The Confederacy was another name for the 11 states that made up the Confederate State of America. | 12 | |
| 1550581946 | Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War. 16th President of the United States. | 13 | |
| 1550581947 | Dred Scott | A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. | 14 | |
| 1550581948 | Bleeding Kansas | Fighting that erupted after pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers both moved into Kansas. | 15 | |
| 1550581949 | Compromise of 1850 | Series of laws intended to settle the disagreements between free and slave states. | 16 | |
| 1550581950 | Missouri Compromise | Laws enacted in 1820 to maintain balance of power between slave and free states. | 17 | |
| 1550581951 | Causes | 1) Slavery 2) Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 3) South Carolina seceeds | 18 | |
| 1550581952 | Civil War | A war between opposing groups of citizens in the same country. | 19 | |
| 1550581953 | Secede | To separate from the Union | 20 | |
| 1550581954 | Fort Sumter | South Carolina, 1861. The first battle of the Civil War | 21 | |
| 1550581955 | Fugitive Slave Act | 1850 law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves | 22 |
