US History Unit 1 Vocabulary

Definition: first plan for a national government in the US; created a confederation of 13 states. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

Definition: protections for personal liberty that limit the power of government over individual. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Bill of Rights

• Judicial Review

• Federalism

• Executive Order

Definition: the proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

Definition: an antislavery political party in the mid-1800s. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Free Soil Party

• Whig Party

• Democratic Party

• Know-Nothing Party

Definition: a political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

Definition: people control all political power. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Popular sovereignty

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

Definition: a law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending people trying to escape slavery; a part of the Compromise of 1850. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Emancipation Proclamation

Definition: was an American writer and abolitionist best known for her antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• Susan B. Anthony

Definition: a 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska, giving each territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

Definition: (1800-1859) was an American abolitionist best known for leading a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859. During that raid, he and his co-conspirators were captured and later executed. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term.

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison