Module 17: A Divided Nation

What free state was added with the Compromise of 1850?

• Texas

• New Mexico

• Utah

• California

The loyalty to a part of a nation or region, but not the nation as a whole.

• emancipation

• sectionalism

• conscription

• secession

The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

• abolition

• secession

• conscription

• sectionalism

An idea that government is created by and subject to the will of the people and also referenced before the Civil War, an idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.

• Habeas Corpus

• Emancipation

• Popular Sovereignty

• Slave Codes

Authorized government officials to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.

• Slave Codes

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation

• Conscription

Withdrawal from the Union.

• Secession

• Emancipation

• Conscription

• Abolition

The states between the North and the South that were divided over whether to stay in the Union or join the Confederacy.

• Cotton Belt

• Border State

• Habeas Corpus

• Ironclad

A Union Soldier

• Yankee

• Rebel

• Ironclad

• Cotton Belt

A Confederate soldier, so called because of the opposition to the established government.

• Rebel

• Yankee

• Ironclad

• Cotton Belt

To free from slavery

• Conscription

• Secession

• Emancipation

• Sectionalism