The Road to War & Secession--Vocabulary

an 1820 compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state; it established a demarcation line for slavery at latitude 36°30’ N

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

a multipart compromise whereby California joined the Union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico Territories could decide on slavery by popular sovereignty, and a Fugitive Slave Act was passed

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A Supreme Court case where the plaintiff was told he could not sue because he was a slave and did not have the right to sue due to his status as property

• John Brown's Raid

• popular sovereignty

• Dred Scott Decision

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

A raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Va.; meant to spark a huge slave uprising, but failed

• popular sovereignty

• Dred Scott Decision

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• John Brown's Raid

A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the evils of slavery

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Battle Hymn of the Republic

an act designed to ensure southern slaveholders that they could reclaim slaves who escaped to free states

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

A 1854 law which basically repealed the Missouri Compromise; permitted popular sovereignty; sparked violence in Kansas and led to the creation of the Republican party

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

(verb) withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization

• sectionalism

• fugitive

• secede

• arsenal

a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination,

• sectionalism

• fugitive

• secede

• arsenal

the thinking of northerners and southerners that their own part of the country was fundamentally different from the other, based in large part on the issue of slavery

• sectionalism

• fugitive

• secede

• arsenal