Antebellum Vocab Quiz Review

compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Election of 1860

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.

• Dred Scott Case

• Election of 1860

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon Lincoln’s election Southern states seceded from the Union.

• Election of 1860

• Dred Scott Case

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

states where slavery was not legal.

• Free States

• Slave States

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

• Free States

• Slave States

position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850.

• Georgia Platform

• Dred Scott Case

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

The 16th president of the United States, he preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves

• Abraham Lincoln

• Alexander Stephens

• Election of 1860

compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state; in addition, Congress banned slavery north of the 36˚20’ line of latitude.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1860

the act of making legally null and void.

• Nullification

• Missouri Compromise

• Election of 1860

• Free States

the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.

• Secession

• Nullification

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Georgia Platform