Civil War

The withdrawal of a region, state, or territory from a large group

• Cede

• Arsenal

• State's Rights

• Secession

A slave who sued to gain his freedom. Court case ended up in front of the Supreme Court.

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Roger B. Taney

The people in a territory or state get to vote directly on issues; for example to become free or slave.

• Border ruffians

• Popular sovereignty

• Secede

• Arsenal

Why was slavery generally supported by southerners?

• All southerners owned slaves
• They knew someday they would be slaveowners
• Slavery was an important part of their economy
• They would be executed for disagreeing

Shared his personal testimony of being a slave himself, he made listeners realize the brutality and horrors of slavery

• William Lloyd Garrison
• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass
• Benjamin Rush

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

• Allowing California in as a free state
• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
• using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
• the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

Cultural and political differences that divided the country 

• sectionalism
• secede
• slave state
• free state

An act passed in 1854 that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed setters of these territories to decide if they would allow slavery in the new territories ...

• Union

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

This agreement admitted California as a free state, strengthened the Fugitive slave law, and allowed the territories of New Mexico and Utah to decide whether to allow slavery ...

• The Wilmot Proviso

• The Dred Scott decision

• The Compromise of 1850

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

Which description below best describes what Popular Sovereignty is?

• people living in a state vote if they want slavery or not
• When 1 section of the country only cares about their section
• When all states vote if a new state should have slavery or not
• to leave or withdraw