Antebellum Vocab 2022

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

• Dred Scott Case

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Georgia Platform

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

• Georgia Platform

• Dred Scott Case

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification

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

• Nullification

• Secession

• Election of 1860

• Dred Scott Case

Free States - states where slavery was (a)   legal

act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States.

• Dred Scott Case

• States Rights

• Nullifcation

• Fugitive Slave Law

Georgia Platform - position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who (a)   the Compromise of 1850.

(a)   - The 16th president of the United States, preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.

compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state; in addition, Congress banned slavery north of the 36˚20’ line of latitude.

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification

• Missouri Compromise

• States' Rights

theory that states can overturn federal law they believe are unconstitutional by making them null and void.

• secession

• popular sovereignty

• states' rights

• nullification

the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.

• secession

• nullification

• states' rights

• free states