Civil War Vocabulary

What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal

• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, got rid of the Missouri Compromise

• Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union

• Providing financial compensation to slaveholders

What was the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862?

• A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal

• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, got rid of the Missouri Compromise

• Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union

• Providing financial compensation to slaveholders

What was the main purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• To abolish slavery in all territories

• To create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska

• To reinforce the Missouri Compromise

• To end the Civil War

What was the Union?

• Mexico taking over

• The United States; especially the northern states during the civil war

• The United Kingdom

• The Southern states

What was the Confederacy?

• Mexico taking over

• The United States; especially the northern states during the civil war

• The United Kingdom

• The Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

What does "secession" mean?

• Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

• The act of joining a union

• The process of industrialization

• The abolition of slavery

What is Fort Sumter?

• It was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg

• Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War

• It was where the Emancipation Proclamation was signed

• It was the location of the Missouri Compromise which determined which states were free states and which states were slave states

What was NOT one of the outcomes of the Compromise of 1850?

• California entered as a slave state

• A boundary was established between Texas and the United States

• California entered as a free state

• Called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC

What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter as a free state

• Allowed states to vote based on population and equal representation

• 3/5th of a state's slave population would could toward votes

• Called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC

What was the main economic focus of the North during the Civil War?

• Agriculture and plantations

• Industrialization and manufacturing

• Trade and commerce

• Mining and resource extraction