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What is the Wilmot Proviso.

• A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territories added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.

• The agreements were made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. Including popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah. Legaized slavery in Washington D.C. made the slave trade illegal, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Allowed slave catchers to hunt down escaped slaves and return them to Southern plantations, often for pay.

• Created the Kansas-Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery was legal through the settlers’ popular sovereignty.

• A Supreme Court decision that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is the Compromise of 1850.

• A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territories added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.

• The agreements were made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. Including popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah. Legaized slavery in Washington D.C. made the slave trade illegal, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Allowed slave catchers to hunt down escaped slaves and return them to Southern plantations, often for pay.

• Created the Kansas-Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery was legal through the settlers’ popular sovereignty.

• A Supreme Court decision that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act.

• A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territories added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.

• The agreements were made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. Including popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah. Legaized slavery in Washington D.C. made the slave trade illegal, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Allowed slave catchers to hunt down escaped slaves and return them to Southern plantations, often for pay.

• Created the Kansas-Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery was legal through the settlers’ popular sovereignty.

• A Supreme Court decision that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territories added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.

• The agreements were made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. Including popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah. Legaized slavery in Washington D.C. made the slave trade illegal, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Allowed slave catchers to hunt down escaped slaves and return them to Southern plantations, often for pay.

• Created the Kansas-Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery was legal through the settlers’ popular sovereignty.

• A Supreme Court decision that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is the Dred Scott Decision.

• A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territories added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.

• The agreements were made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. Including popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah. Legaized slavery in Washington D.C. made the slave trade illegal, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Allowed slave catchers to hunt down escaped slaves and return them to Southern plantations, often for pay.

• Created the Kansas-Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery was legal through the settlers’ popular sovereignty.

• A Supreme Court decision that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is the Gettysburg Address.

• A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of Union soldiers who had died in trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.

• An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declared slaves in the Confederate States free.

• A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union under the Command of General Ulysses S. Grant.

• A turning point, ending the South’s final attempt to invade the North. From that point on, the Confederacy fought defensively in the South.

• High death tolls at the Battle of Antietam reflected new methods of warfare. 

What is the Emancipation Proclamation.

• A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of Union soldiers who had died in trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.

• An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declared slaves in the Confederate States free.

• A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union under the Command of General Ulysses S. Grant.

• A turning point, ending the South’s final attempt to invade the North. From that point on, the Confederacy fought defensively in the South.

• High death tolls at the Battle of Antietam reflected new methods of warfare. 

What is the Appomattox Court House.

• A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of Union soldiers who had died in trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.

• An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declared slaves in the Confederate States free.

• A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union under the Command of General Ulysses S. Grant.

• A turning point, ending the South’s final attempt to invade the North. From that point on, the Confederacy fought defensively in the South.

• High death tolls at the Battle of Antietam reflected new methods of warfare. 

What is the Battle of Gettysburg.

• A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of Union soldiers who had died in trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.

• An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declared slaves in the Confederate States free.

• A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union under the Command of General Ulysses S. Grant.

• A turning point, ending the South’s final attempt to invade the North. From that point on, the Confederacy fought defensively in the South.

• High death tolls at the Battle of Antietam reflected new methods of warfare. 

What is the Battle of Antietam.

• A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of Union soldiers who had died in trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded.

• An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declared slaves in the Confederate States free.

• A village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to the Union under the Command of General Ulysses S. Grant.

• A turning point, ending the South’s final attempt to invade the North. From that point on, the Confederacy fought defensively in the South.

• High death tolls at the Battle of Antietam reflected new methods of warfare.