Lesson 21: A Dividing Nation

Compromise of 1850

• California is admitted as a state without slavery

• California is admitted as a state with slavery

• California becomes its own country

• California is kicked out of the U.S.

Confront

• to help someone in a challenge

• to give up

• to meet in a challenge

• to concede

Dred Scott Decision

• Supreme Court ruling that abolished slavery in the South

• Supreme Court ruling that made it easier for slave catchers to catch slaves

• Supreme Court ruling that abolished slavery in the North

• Supreme Court ruling that African Americans were ruled never to be citizens of the U.S.

Faction

• All of the Above

• Separate and different from the main group

• A word from the movie Divergent

• United, sharing the same ideas as one group

Ensure

• to give up on something

• to make sure or certain

• to disagree

• to stop something from happening

Fugitive

• a person who tries to escape something

• someone who has a fear of moving to another place

• a person who travels on vacation to different places

• a person who stays in one place

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• took away settlers' decision to have slavery

• made all new territories slave states

• allowed settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery

• made all new territories free states

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• political debates between Stephen Lincoln and Abraham Douglas

• political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

• political debates between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

• political debates between John Adams and Benjamin Franklin

Missouri Compromise

• Both Missouri and Maine became free states

• Missouri became a free state, Maine became a slave state

• Missouri became a slave state, Maine became a free state

• Both Missouri and Maine became slave states

Union

• Another name for The United States

• The opposite of the Confederacy

• The government and armies of the North during the Civil War

• All of the Above