Unit 4 Vocabulary Review

1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican

• Wilmot Proviso

• Bleeding Kansas

• Caning of Sumner

• Free soil

Compromise that said Missouri would enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and drew the line on the expansion of slavery 36°, 30'

• Total War

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1865

• Bleeding Kansas

A series of laws passed in 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery in the US. Ex: Banning slavery in Washington DC, Texas debt, Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of Bleeding Kansas

• Popular Sovereignty

• Free Soil

• Compromise of 1850

Letting voters decide if their state would be a slave state or free state.

• Reconstruction

• Free Soil

• Land Compromise

• Popular Sovereignty

A period of outbreaks of violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Wilmot Proviso

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Kansas Compromise

Ideology that opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States

• Black Codes

• Fugitive Slave Laws

• Dred Scott

• Free Soil

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man.

• Harriet Tubman

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• Jefferson Davis

An economic plan designed for economic growth and national unity. These policies including protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements.

• American System

• Free Soil

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Nullification Act

A political conflict between South Carolina and the federal government because SC had opposition to the federal Tariff.

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• Nullification Crisis

• Nullify Plan

The first president of the Republican party and a Free Soiler

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• David Wilmot