Unit 12 Vocab Review

An act that allowed the people who moved into these two territories to decide the issue of slavery for themselves. (popular sovereignty)

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas -Nebraska Act

The term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Violence of Kansas

• Aching Kansas

• Trail of Tears

A legal case in which a slave sued for his freedom and the Supreme Court, ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom nor a citizen

• Solomon Northup

• Amari

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise Bill

• Force Bill

A set of laws, passed in the attempt to give something to both sides: admission of California as a free state; the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law, abolishing slavery in Washington, D.C.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas -Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

The document was a protest against the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations. The document stated that if the tariff was not repealed, South Carolina would secede

• Force Bill

• SC Exposition and Protest

• Missouri Compromise

Authorized President Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. (South Carolina would not collect duties on them)

• Force Bill

• SC Exposition and Protest

• Missouri Compromise

An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Uncle Ruckus Tomb

Laws passed by Congress required all citizens to not assist and return slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

• Escaped Slave Act

• Runaway Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

An effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt by taking over a US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

• Harpers Ferry

• Port Royal