Civil War Vocab I

Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state to keep the balance of power among the states.

• The Issue of Slavery

• Kansas - Nebraska Act

• The Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

Made California a free state and gave the South the Fugitive Slave Act. This forced the North to help capture escaped slaves.

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown’s Raid

• Abolitionists

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that shared ideas of the injustices of slavery.

• The Issue of Slavery

• Uncle Tom’s

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• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown’s Raid

This law was written to allow states to decide whether to allow or forbid slavery in their state.

• Missouri Compromise

• The Election of 1860

• Uncle Tom’s

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• Kansas - Nebraska Act

An event that finalized the start of the war. Abraham Lincoln became President of the U.S. and would have to resolve the conflict in the U.S.

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Election of 1860

• The Dred Scott Decision

• Compromise of 1850

-people who worked to bring an end to slavery.

• Abolitionists

• Black Codes

• Fugitive

• Sectionalism

- an order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states were free.

• Abolish

• 13th Amendment

• Segregation

• Emancipation Proclamation

- an association formed by people with a common interest or purpose, sometimes what we call the United States of America.

• Confederacy

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Union

• Civil War

- a conflict between groups or regions within a country.

• Civil War

• State’s Rights

• Suffrage

• Segregation

- a league or alliance, especially of Confederate states, the name given to the southern states that left the Union.

• 15th Amendment

• Union

• Abolish

• Confederacy