US Social Studies Final 2025 Part A 3

A Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that said enslaved African American Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom because enslaved people were not citizens, and it also said Congress couldn’t ban slavery in U.S. territories, which made the North and South even more divided before the Civil War.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Emancipation Proclamation

A decree issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were free.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision

A term used by Northerners in the 1800s to describe the political influence and control that slaveholders in the South had over the U.S. government.

• Slave Power
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision

A law requiring that escaped enslaved people be returned to their enslavers

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision

An American abolitionist before the Civil War known for his violent ways, fighting in Bleeding Kansas, and death after Harper's Ferry

• John Brown
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision

The United States as one country. The opposite of states leaving (secession) to form another country (the Confederacy.

• Union
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision

A president who led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States of America and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery

• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision
• Emancipation Proclamation

The government of the 11 states who seceded (left) the Union during the Civil War (1861-1865).The government of the 11 states who seceded (left) the Union during the Civil War (1861-1865).

• Confederacy
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Dred Scott Decision
• Emancipation Proclamation

A violent 1856 attack in the U.S. Senate, where Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Sumner with a cane for speaking out against slavery.

• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Abraham Lincoln
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision
• Emancipation Proclamation

A secret network of routes, people, and safe houses that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to freedom in the North and Canada before the Civil War.

• Underground Railroad
• Abraham Lincoln
• Caning of Charles Sumner
• Confederacy
• Dred Scott Decision