Civil War Vocabulary

To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

• States' Rights
• Reconstruction
• Secede
• abolitionist

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.

• Blockade
• Embargo
• Tariff
• Sectionalism

setting someone free from the control of another person

• incarceration

• serfdom

• emancipation

A person who wants to end slavery.

• carpetbagger

• Unionist

• confederate

• abolitionist

The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.

• Blockade
• Confederation
• States' Rights
• Republicanism

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel would be free states and all the South slave states.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but property. It fueled abolitionist movement, and hailed as victory for the South.

• Dred Scott Case
• John Brown's Raid
• Popular Sovereignty
• secession

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

• Dred Scott Case
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act