Road to Civil War Vocabulary

A federal law passed in 1854 that allowed residents of the Nebraska and Kansas territories to vote directly on whether or not to allow slavery in those territories (This is a famous example of popular sovereignty)

The act of officially ending or stopping something (specifically slavery in the 1700s and 1800s)

• Compromise of 1820
  (Missouri Compromise)

• Treason

• Secede

• Abolition

Government officials could arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave because of this law.

• Dred Scott case

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Slave Codes

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

This means to leave or withdraw, and is what South Carolina did in 1860.

• Fugitive

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Compromise

This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory

• Abolition

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Populist

In the ____ ____ ____, the Supreme Court ruled that slavery could not be outlawed in the territories and African Americans were not citizens.

• Dred Scott decision

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

• Harper's Ferry raid

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy

• Northern states hated him

• He began to establish more slave states

• Southern states began to secede

A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1859 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Harper's Ferry Raid

A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states and Canada.

• The Underground Railroad

• The Freedom Trail

• The Liberty Line

• The Emancipation Route

The belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, which was used to justify the annexation of territories.

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• American Exceptionalism

• Territorial Expansion