Unit 8- Civil War

An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state, which outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36,30 latitude. 

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Confredency

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

An antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew any people to the abolitionists.  

• Fort Sumter

• Dred Scott Decision

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Fugitive Slave Act

A federal outpost in Charleston,South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking The Civil War.

• Anaconda Plan

• Confederacy

• Election of 1860

• Fort Sumter

Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.

• Robert E Lee

• 1. Compromise of 1850

• Sectionalism

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal,and required their return to slaveholders

• Confederacy

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Union

The group of states that remained part of the United States after 11 southern states seceded in 1860 and 1861 and formed the Confederacy.The federal union of states during the period of the American Civil War.

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Confederacy

• Missouri Compromise

• Union

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to  allow slavery.

• Compromise of 1850

• Sectionalism

• Anaconda Plan

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

• Fort Sumter

• Anaconda Plan

• Union

• Fugitive Slave Act

A political union, The most famous American confederacy consisted of the southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Sectionalism

• Anaconda Plan

• Confedrency

A Confederate general who led the South's attempt at secession during the Civil War. He challenged Union forces during the war's bloodiest battles, including Antietam and Gettysburg, before surrendering to Union General Ulysses S.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant