WorksheetsExpanding Nation Vocabulary
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Eviction
To expel or force out through a legal process
Commercial production of goods
To enter and settle into a new country
A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country
Industry
Commercial production of goods
To enter and settle in a new country
A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country
Someone who wants to end slavery
Immigration
To enter and settle into a new country
A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country
Someone who wants to end slavery
To expel or force out through a legal process
Secession
A state or district formally leaving and withdrawing from a country
To expel or force out through a legal process
Commercial production of goods
Someone who wants to end slavery
Abolitionist
Someone who wants to end slavery
To expel or force out through a legal process
To enter and settle in a new country
Commercial production of goods
Manifest Destiny
The idea that God had given the US the right to conquer the land in North America.
Someone who wants to end slavery
Route used during the US westward migrations, especially from 1840-1860
The action of becoming larger or more extensive
Compromise of 1850
A set of laws, that admitted California to the US as a "free" state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Included the Fugitive Slave Act
Covered or protected with iron
Declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently rebelling against the Union, "shall be then , thenceforward, and forever free."
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
The Oregon Trail
A route used during the US westward migrations, especially from 1840 - 1860.
18th President of the US; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
The action of becoming larger or more extensive
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
Ulysses S Grant
18th President of the US; commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War
The action of becoming larger or more extensive
US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Robert E Lee
American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War
Covered or protected with iron
US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Expansion
The action of becoming larger or more extensive
Someone who wants to end slavery
To enter and settle in a new country
To expel or force out through legal process
Dred Scott Decision
American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War
Covered or protected with iron
US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Ironclad
American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War
Covered or protected with iron
US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Confederacy
American general who led the Confederate armies in the American Civil War
Covered or protected with iron
US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" - allowing the people of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.
Covered or protected with iron
US Supreme Court's ruling that having lived in a free state/territory didn't mean an enslaved person was now free; argued that slaves were property, not citizens, so they couldn't sue in federal court.
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
1854 bill that mandated "popular sovereignty" - allowing the people of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.
Covered or protected with iron
declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in states currently rebelling against the Union, "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states
Missouri Compromise
A set of laws, that admitted California to the US as a "free" state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Included the Fugitive Slave Act
Covered or protected with iron
An agreement in 1820 that admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and banned slavery from any future territories or sates north of the 36•30 line
A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
