Unit 4 Vocab

What does the 15th amendment ensure?

• Citizenship and equal protection of the law to all US citizens, including formerly enslaved people

• No denial of voting rights based on race/color or previous servitude

• Laws that required the return of any runaway slaves to their owners, even if they were in free states

• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment of a crime

What was the Civil War?

• A) A conflict between European countries

• B) A 4-year conflict between Northern (Union) and Southern (Confederate) states

• C) A war for independence

• D) A trade war.

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• Period after Civil War that dealt with reuniting a broken nation and address issues that arose with millions of newly freed slaves

• Series of laws proposed by Henry Clay to settle issues connected to slavery and new state territories

• Organized territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repealed Missouri Compromise, and introduced popular sovereignty

• A 4-year conflict between Northern (Union) and Southern (Confederate) states

What was the Reconstruction period?

• A 4-year conflict between Northern (Union) and Southern (Confederate) states

• Period after Civil War that dealt with reuniting a broken nation and address issues that arose with millions of newly freed slaves

• The act of withdrawing from a federation/body, especially a political state

• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment of a crime

What is popular sovereignty?

• The idea that the government gets its power from the people

• A person who flees a country or location to escape danger/persecution

• To free someone from slavery

• No denial of voting rights based on race/color or previous servitude

What does emancipation mean?

• A) To imprison someone

• B) To free someone from slavery

• C) To declare war

• D) To form a government

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Laws that required the return of any runaway slaves to their owners, even if they were in free states

• Organized territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repealed Missouri Compromise, and introduced popular sovereignty

• Series of laws proposed by Henry Clay to settle issues connected to slavery and new state territories

• A peace treaty.

What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

• A) Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for punishment of a crime

• No denial of voting rights based on race/color or previous servitude

• The act of withdrawing from a federation/body, especially a political state

• Citizenship and equal protection of the law to all US citizens, including formerly enslaved people

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Series of laws proposed by Henry Clay to settle issues connected to slavery and new state territories

• Laws that required the return of any runaway slaves to their owners, even if they were in free states

• Period after Civil War that dealt with reuniting a broken nation and address issues that arose with millions of newly freed slaves

• A person who flees a country or location to escape danger/persecution

What does secession mean?

• A) The act of joining a federation

• B) The act of withdrawing from a federation/body, especially a political state

• C) The act of forming a new government

• D) The act of declaring war.