Before the War Vocab

separation of people based on race

• segregation

• racism

• popular sovereignty

• Republican party

the belief that one race is better than others

• segregation

• racism

• popular sovereignty

• Republican party

the idea that the residents of a region or nation decide an issue by voting

• Confederacy

• racism

• popular sovereignty

• Republican party

a Supreme Court decision that African Americans held no rights as citizens and that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional

• Confederacy

• Dred Scott Decision

• popular sovereignty

• garrison

defensive force

• Confederacy

• Dred Scott Decision

• popular sovereignty

• garrison

a political party founded in 1854 by antislavery leaders

• Confederacy

• garrison

• secede

• Republican party

a member of the Constitutional Union Party

• Confederacy

• Unionist

• secede

• Crittenden Plan

a proposal that stated the federal government would have no power to abolish slavery in the states where it already existed

• Confederacy

• Unionist

• secede

• Crittenden Plan

Match the following

• The North

• abolitionist

• to withdraw formally

• Confederacy

• The South

• Union

• a person who wants to end slavery in the US

• secede

Match the following about the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act:

• Voted as a slave state

• Nebraska

• Admitted as a free state to keep balance

• Kansas

• Promised to return runaway slaves

• Compromise of 1850

• California admitted as a free state

• Fugitive Slave Act