Unit 8 vocabulary

a settlement of differences in which each side gives up something

• Bleeding Kansas

• protective tariff

• compromise

• nullification

Results in California admitted as a free state (benefits the north) and the Fugitive Slave Act (benefits the south)

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• states' rights

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional

• nullification

• Fugitive Slave Act

• protective tariff

• compromise

1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and were not protected by the Constitution

• states' rights

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

Term referring to bloodshed over popular sovereignty in a particular western territory

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

• states' rights

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

the right of states to limit the power of the federal government

• protective tariff

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• states' rights

• nullification

A law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed voters to choose whether to allow slavery in those territories.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

A tax on imported goods that raises the price of imports so people will buy domestic goods

• Missouri Compromise

• nullification

• compromise

• protective tariff

Set a pattern of allowing one free state and one slave state into the Union to maintain a balance of power. Study this list.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Fugitive Slave Act