Causes of Civil War Vocabulary

This was a compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.

• Dred Scott Case

• Worcester vs Georgia

The election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon Lincoln’s election Southern states seceded from the Union.

• Election of 1776

• Election of 1860

• Election of 2020

The position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850.

• States' Rights

• Georgia Platform

It was the involuntary servitude of African-Americans in the United States from 1619-1865.

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

It is the belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the national government.

• Georgia Platform

• States' Rights

It is the withdrawal of a group from a larger body, especially a political body or nation, but also any organization, union or military alliance.

• Nullification

• States' Rights

• Secession

It is a legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate or ignore any federal law which the state deems unfit.

• States' Rights

• Secession

• Nullification

This event gave the presidency to Lincoln.

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Nullification

• Election of 1860

16th President of the United States.

• William Sherman

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln