Chapter 1 Vocab

Was the war between the Nothern and Southern States from 1861 to-1865

• Civil War

• World War I

• Spanish American War

• Mexican American War

Gaining lands to the west

• Westward Expansion

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• States Rights

• Anconda Plan

Under this law, Missouri became a slave state, and Maine became a free state. Slavery was not otherwise to be permitted in the lands of the Louisana Purchase above the 36.30 N

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

California was admitted as free state and stricter fugitive law was enacted

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Sectionalism

• Gettysburg Address

This law applied popular sovereignty to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the remaining territories of the Louisiana Purchase, reopening the slavery issue there.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Freeport Doctrine

• Compromise of 1850

Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott an African American, was not a citizen and had no right to sue in the court.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Ostend Manifesto

• Freeport Doctrine

• Missouri Compromise

Attempt by U.S. Diplomats from the south to purchase Cuba as a new Slave State. News of this enraged Northerners.

• Ostend Manifesto

• Dred Scott Decision

• Anaconda Dumb

• Emancipation Proclamation

Many Southerns believed states had the right to leave the Union if they wished

• States Right

• Slavery

• Westward Expansion

• Sectionalism

was the North's strategy for winning the war. It used naval power to blockade the South and divide Southern states along the Mississippi River

• Anaconda Plan

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Ostend Manifesto

• Freeport Doctrine

Lincoln issued this in September 1862, freeing all the slaves in states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863.

• Empancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Vicksburg

• Dred Scott Decision