Unit 9 Vocab (Sectionalism)

Select all the correct parts of the Missouri Compromise.

• Missouri entered as a FREE state

• Maine entered as a SLAVE state

• Missouri entered as a SLAVE state

• Maine entered as a FREE state

Missouri Compromise​ ​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

Compromise of 1850​ ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• created the line that decided slavery
• made Missouri a slave state
• created a balance of free & slave states
• allowed popular sovereignty in southwest
• made California a free state

The Kansas & Nebraska Act allowed the people in those territories to decide on slavery through ​ (a)   in two territories. The ​ (b)   allowed California to become a ​ (c)   state, while also banning the slave trade in Washington DC.

• popular sovereignty
• Compromise of 1850
• free
• Missouri Compromise
• slave
• Fugitive Slave Act
• governor elections

What law made it illegal to help runaway slaves?

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

​ (a)   was an abolitionist, which meant he wanted ​ (b)   .

• Frederick Douglass
• to end slavery
• Dorothea Dix
• Horace Mann
• ban alcohol
• build hospitals
• fight for women's suffrage

Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, which meant she......

• would help runaway slaves escape to freedom in the North

• would print anti-slavery articles in her newspaper the North Star

• would build hospitals for the mentally ill

• supported the South's decisions to secede

In the case of Dred Scott, the Supreme Court decided that slaves were not citizens. What is the Supreme Court? Select 2 answers.

• the highest federal court

• the highest state court

• 9 justices who decide whether laws are constitutional

• members of Congress who make laws

What region focused heavily on growing cotton and had the most plantations/enslaved population?

• The Northeast

• The Midwest

• The West

• The South

• The Lower South

Which court case decided that slaves were not citizens?

• Worcester vs. Georgia

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• McCulloch vs. Maryland

• Marbury vs. Madison

Match the following vocab words with the sentence describing it.

• The other side started the fight.

• siege

• We gave up the fight.

• tactics

• They were completely surrounded.

• bombardment

• We planned out our strategy for the battle.

• initiated

• They were attacked.

• surrender