SS8H5 Vocabulary Practice

A period in the history of the Southern United States, from the late 18th century until the start of the American Civil War in 1861. 

• Antebellum Era

• Slavery

• Riots

• The Civil War

The war fought between the North and the South in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

• The Vietnam War

• WW1

• The Civil War

• The French and Indian War

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

• The Treaty of Paris

• Compromise of 1850

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Civil Rights

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

• Dred Scott Case (1857)

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• Brown vs BOE

• Compromise of 18502

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

• Election of 1864

• Election of 2020

• Election of 1920

• Election of 1860

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

• Election of 1860

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

• States Rights

• The Compromise of 1850

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

• States Rights

• Georgia Platform

• Sectionalism

• Slavery

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. 

• Slavery

• Sectionalism

• Secession

• Nulify

to make legally null and void, cancellation of a federal law.

• States Rights

• Nulify

• Slavery

• Sectionalism

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole

• Secession

• Sectionalism

• Nulify

• Slavery