Road to Civil War Vocabulary

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., gave popular sovereignty in New Mexico & Utah, & created a new tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

A person who wants to end or abolish slavery

• Abolitionist

• Secession

• Popular Sovereignty

• nullify

Fighting between pro-slavery and abolitionists in Kansas that resulted in possibly 200 deaths.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Denmark Vesey

• Westward Expansion

• Compromise of 1850

A formal withdrawal from a country or government. 

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Nullify

• Secession

A state that did not permit slavery

• Free State

• Bleeding Kansas

• Slave State

• Abolitionist

What does secede mean?

• withdraw (leave) formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political organization

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants.

• an agreement that allowed California into the union as a free state, divided the rest of the Mexican cession into two territories, settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished slave trade in Washington, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• an agreement that allowed California into the union as a free state, divided the rest of the Mexican cession into two territories, settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico, abolished slave trade in Washington, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act

• two or more groups settle a dispute by agreeing to a portion

  of what each group wants.

• a 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new states' borders

• to maintain an item, nation, or tradition

What was the main purpose of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• To allow California to enter as a free state

• To maintain the balance of power between free and slave states

• To abolish slavery in all states

• To create a new Fugitive Slave Law

Who was the author of the famous anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• William Lloyd Garrison

What was the significance of the Dred Scott decision in 1857?

• It declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

• It ended the Civil War

• It granted citizenship to all slaves

• It abolished slavery in the southern states