The Union in Crisis - Key Terms

Idea that the people of each state would decide whether or not to allow slavery in that state

• Secede

• Free-Soil Party

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

Stated that Kansas & Nebraska would settle the slavery issue through popular sovereignty

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• "Bleeding Kansas"

The southern states that seceded from the Union called themselves the ___________________________

• Rebel States of America

• Yankee States of America

• Slavery States of America

• Confederate States of America

"Bleeding Kansas"

• The name given to the state of Nebraska because of all the fighting over slavery

• The name given to the state of Kansas because of all the fighting over slavery

• The name given to the state of Arkansas because of all the fighting over slavery

• The name given to the state of Missouri because of all the fighting over slavery

Which fort was the site of the first skirmish between Union and Confederate "soldiers?"

• Fort Sumter

• Fort McHenry

• Fort Morgan

• Battery White

This piece of legislation stated that all citizens nationwide were responsible for the catching & return of escaped enslaved persons, even those that lived in the North.

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

These people who supported slavery lived in the state of Missouri, but would often cross over to Kansas and cast illegal votes to make the state pro-slavery

• Abolitionists

• Border Ruffians

• Drunken Scoundrels

• Free-Soil Party

This word means "to break away from;" Used in the sense that the Southern states broke away from the Union

• Abdicate

• Withdraw

• Secede

• Apostatize

This political party was born from an anti-immigrant movement that began in the 1830s/1840s

• Whig Party

• Know-Nothing Party

• Free-Soil Party

• Nativist Party

This political party advocated for "free soil, free speech, free labor, free men"

• Free-Soil Party

• Whig Party

• Republican Party

• Constitutional Union Party