Lesson 21 A Dividing Nation

The United States as one nation united under a single government; during the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North

• Confederacy

• Union

• Communism

• Industrialist

An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state

• Great Compromise

• 3/5s Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War

• Missouri Compromise

• Constitution

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A person who flees or tries to escape

• Fugitive

• Free

• Track Star

• Communist

The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

• California-Nevada Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• 3/5's Compromise

A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the U.S. and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• Dred Scott decision

• Supreme Court

• Brown v Board of Education

• Marbury v Madison

A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race to be senator, in which slavery was the main issue

• Douglas-Maniford Debates

• Hamilton-Burr Debates

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Trump-Clinton Debates

What was the central issue that led to all of the tension between the North and the South

• Slavery

• England

• Communism

• Magna Carta

Why was the Republican party founded and what was their goal once Abraham Lincoln was elected president

• To end slavery in America

• To make sure slavery spread

• communism

• transcendentalism