Road to Civil War Vocabulary

A part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it law that any enslaved individual that is captured in the North must be returned to owners in the South.

• Border Ruffian

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Abolition

• Popular Sovereignty

A federal law passed in 1854 that allowed residents of the Nebraska and Kansas territories to vote directly on whether or not to allow slavery in those territories (This is a famous example of popular sovereignty)

• Compromise of 1820
  (Missouri Compromise)

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

A group of pro-slavery Missourians during the 1850s who crossed the border into Kansas to vote illegally on the issue of slavery and raid/intimidate the anti-slavery settlers

• Border Ruffian

• Sectionalism

• Abolition

• Fugitive

A compromise made by the federal government that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state at the same time. This maintained the balance of power between slave and free states in government.

• Compromise of 1850

• A federal law passed in 1854 that allowed residents of the Nebraska and Kansas territories to vote directly on whether or not to allow slavery in those territories (This is a famous example of popular sovereignty)

• A part of the Compromise of 1850 that made it law that any enslaved individual that is captured in the North must be returned to owners in the South.

• Compromise of 1820
  (Missouri Compromise)

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

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

Which outcome best completes this diagram?

d

Manifest Destiny

Civil War

Popular Sovereignty

American Revolution

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8.8B

What was the main argument of the southern states in favor of secession?

• The need for a stronger federal government

• The protection of states' rights, especially regarding the institution of slavery

• The desire to expand westward without federal interference

• The need to preserve the Union at all costs

A compromise that addressed the issue of slavery in the territories gained from the Mexican American War by allowing California to be admitted as a free state and created a stronger Fugitive Slave Act.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1820
  (Missouri Compromise)

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

A group of pro-slavery Missourians during the 1850s who crossed the border into Kansas to vote illegally on the issue of slavery and raid/intimidate the anti-slavery settlers

A compromise made by the federal government that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state at the same time. This maintained the balance of power between slave and free states in government.