Civil War- Fratt P6

An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country

Sectionalism

US legislator known as the great compromiser. He made so many compromises.

Henry Clay

Compromise that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, while Maine entered as a free state. Added the 36’30’ line to determine future slave and free states.

Missouri Compromise (1820)

A person on the run from authorities. (In the pre-Civil War period, usually referred to people who had escaped slavery).

Fugitive

To formally withdraw from a federal union.

Secede

To refuse to vote.

Abstain (voting)

Five laws based on one of Henry Clay’s plans. It included making California a free state, New Mexico and Utah having no restriction on Slavery, the end of the slave trade in DC, and a stronger fugitive slave law.

Compromise of 1850

A law enforcing strict penalties on those who helped runaway slaves.

The Fugitive Slave Act

Allowing the citizens of a territory to decide whether or not their new state would allow slavery.

Popular Sovereignty

A law that repealed the Missouri Compromise. It allowed for popular sovereignty to be used to determine whether there would be slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territory.

Kansas Nebraska Act

Violent proslavery supporters who crossed the border into a territory in order to influence its vote on slavery.

Border Ruffians

A name used to refer to a series of violent conflicts in the state of Kansas, over its future as a slave or a free state.

Bleeding Kansas

A fervent abolitionist who believed he was chosen by God to end slavery. He led the disastrous raid on Harper’s Ferry.

John Brown

A war fought by the citizens within a single nation. The US Civil War was fought between the Northern and Southern States.

Civil War

Anti-slavery Senator who was attacked by Preston Brooks.

Charles Sumner

Pro-slavery member of the House of Representatives who attacked Charles Sumner with a cane.

Preston Brooks

A new political party in the 1850s. They were Anti-slavery and generally popular in the North.

Republican Party

President before Abraham Lincoln. Not effective at keeping the country united.

James Buchanan

An enslaved African American man who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. His loss meant that no territory had the right to prohibit slavery.

Dred Scott

A rival of Abraham Lincoln. Defeated him in the Illinois senate elections of 1858, after a series of famous debates, only to go on to lose to him when running for president.

Stephen A. Douglas

16th president of the United States. Led during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

A collection of weapons.

Arsenal

A person who dies for a great cause.

Martyr

The new nation that the states that seceded from the US wanted to form.

Confederate States of America: 

The rights of individual states, rather than the federal government.

States’ Rights

A fort in the Charleston Harbor. The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.

Fort Sumter