VOCABULARY

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 let the people who lived in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery.

U.S.S Hunley
The Hunley was a submarine built by the Confederates, and was unsuccessful because it blew up.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stow, and exposed the true horrors of slavery, especially to the North.

The Anaconda Plan was the plan the North used to attack the South during the Civil War.

NAVAL STORES

• Naval Stores were a tar substance that made ships watertight

GULLAH

• An unwritten language of slaves

COTTON GIN

• A contraption invented by Eli Whitney
• Made picking cotton much faster and efficient

LOW COUNTRY

STAMP ACT

• This is an act that taxed everything paper.

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