Review: Civil War

Compromise of 1850

• Ruling that said African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in courts

• An act passed by Congress in 1854 allowing two territories to decide whether to be free or slave states

• It included an act titled the Fugitive Slave Act which made it a crime to help an enslaved person escape from slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• It included an act titled the Fugitive Slave Act which made it a crime to help an enslaved person escape from slavery. 

• An act passed by Congress in 1854 allowing two territories to decide whether to be free or slave states

• Ruling that said African Americans were not citizens

Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision (Hint: check two boxes)

• It included an act titled the Fugitive Slave Act which made it a crime to help an enslaved person escape from slavery. 

• An act passed by Congress in 1854 allowing two territories to decide whether to be free or slave states

• Ruling that said African Americans were not citizens

• Congress could not ban slavery in federal territory

The Confederacy is in the ______________ region of the U.S.

• Southern

• Northern

• Western

• Eastern

The Union was was made up of the ______________ region of the U.S.

• Southern

• Northern

• Western

• Eastern

The Southern states were in favor of keeping slavery.

• True

• False

States who were in favor of leaving the United States.

• Secessionist

• Unionist

People/states who were in favor of preserving the United States and keeping the country together were called ____________.

• Secessionist

• Unionist

• Southerners

People who wanted the end of slavery were called__________.

• Unionist

• Abolitionist

• Expansionist

• Secessionist

Secede

• to stay

• to formally withdraw