Civil War and Government Concepts

An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay to help the number

of slave and free states be equal

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act

government by consent of the governed

• Popular Monarchy

• Popular Autocracy

• Popular Democracy

• Popular Sovereignty

To withdraw from membership in a group

• succede

• succeed

• secede

• resign

A war between people of the same country

• Skirmish
• World War
• Civil war
• Revolution

An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a

free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott Decision

A law passed in 1850 that required all citizens to aid in the capture of runaway slaves

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Civil Rights Act

A betrayal of or action against one’s country

• Allegiance
• Patriotism
• Treason
• Loyalty

an 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the states

• Marbury v. Madison
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson

rule by the military instead of an elected government

• martial law

• military rule
• civilian administration
• authoritarian leadership

A Virginian general who led the Confederate army

• George Meade
• Stonewall Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee