Civil War Vocab

The movement to end slavery.

• Abolition

• Great Compromise

• Institution

• Underground Railroad

The Plan to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Maine Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

A system to help slaves escape from the South.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Abolition

• Compromise

• Underground Railroad

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

Law forcing people to return runaway enslaved Africans.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Institution

Nation formed by eleven Southern states after secession

• Confederate States of America

• United States

• Fort Sumter

• Compromise

North Carolinian found guilty of encouraging enslaved Africans to rebel

• Harriet Tubman

• Dred Scott

• Ben Franklin

• Daniel Worth

A significant practice, relationship, or organization in a society or culture.

• Compromise

• Institution

• Underground Railroad

• Abolition

Tags

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

Site of the first civil war clash in April of 1861 in Charleston, SC.

• Fort Manning

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

• Underground Railroad

Supreme Court decision that slaves were not citizens under the constitution.

• Dred Scott v. Daniel Worth

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Daniel Worth v. Sandford

• Daniel Worth v. Everybody

An agreement in which each side gives up something it wants in order to gain something else.

• Institution

• Abolition

• Rock Paper Scissors

• Compromise

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6