Social Studies Civil War Test 1 Flashcards
Sectionalism
Loyalty to the past of country where a person lives
States Rights
Belief that states should have the final say regarding gov’t
Secede
Break away
Abolish
Do away with -outlaw
Missouri compromise
Compromise negotiated by Henry Clay to keep the valence of free and slave states
Compromise of 1850
States that California would enter the union as a free state. Adam territories were permitted to vote on slavery
Fugitive slave law
Part of compromise of 1850
Abolitionists
People who wanted to do away w/ slavery
Underground Railroad
A chain of homes and farms where escaping slaves could hide
The liberator
An anti slavery newspaper published in 1832
Harriet Tubman
An escaped slave who worked on the Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth
A freed slave who was an abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights
Fredrick Douglass
A freed black slave who spoke out against slavery
Uncle Toms cabin
A novel showing the evils of slavery
Kansas -Nebraska act
Law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska territories to vote on weather or not they wanted slavery
“Bleeding Kansas “
Describes the fighting that went on in Kansas after Kansas and Nebraska law passed .
Dread Scott decision
Supreme Court decision that declared him as property
John brown
A radical abolition from Kansas
Fort Sumter
Union fort in South Carolina
Jefferson Davis
Prez of confederacy
Confederate states of America
States in the southern the that seceded from the union
Border States
Those states on the boundary between the North and South
Robert E. Lee
Commander of confederate army
Ulysses S.Grant
Head of the Union army
Blockade
Preventing ships from entering or leaving a port
Cotton diplomacy
The south counted on money from the sale on of cotton England
