Antebellum Review

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Define secession.

Back

The withdrawal of southern states from the Union.

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What is an abolitionist?

Back

Someone who wants to end the institution of slavery.

Front

What does the word antebellum mean?

Back

Before the war.

Front

Which of the following is an example of popular sovereignty?
Options:
When the President passes an executive order.
When the residents of Kansas and Nebraska got to vote for their statehood (slave or free).
When the House of Representatives decided to make Massachusetts territory into the state of Maine.

Back

When the residents of Kansas and Nebraska got to vote for their statehood (slave or free).

Front

Which of the following is an example of sectionalism? Southern pride leading to secession. American pride after the Revolutionary War. Opposition to the President. Opposition to westward expansion.

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Southern pride leading to secession.

Front

What are state's rights?

Back

rights held by the states and considered more important than the federal government.

Front

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case?

Back

Enslaved people were not citizens but property of their owner.

Front

Method of new territories deciding on whether they would allow slavery or not.

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Popular Sovereignty

Front

WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it a crime to help runaway slaves?

Back

Fugitive Slave Act

Front

The Missouri Compromise allowed what state to be a slave state and what state to be a free state?

Back

Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.