Vocab 1
A plan by Senator Henry Clay, that kept the number of slave states and free states equal.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
African Americans who had fled slavery.
Who were fugitives?
A group that agreed with slavery in Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas.
Who is a Border Ruffian?
A betrayal of or action against one's country.
What is treason?
Making it easy for somthing to happen.
What is conductive?
The right of people to create their government.
What is popular sovereignty?
A war between people of the same country.
What is the civil war?
An 1845 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, giving settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.
What is the Kanas-Nebraska Act?
A place where guns are stored.
What is an arsenal?
To be made up of.
What is a compromise?
A party that formed in Buffalo, New York. Their main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
Act of suggesting something for people to consider.
What is a proposal?
The states that were in between the Union and the Confederate states.
What is a border state?
A political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
To publicly say that someone or something is wrong or bad.
What is a denouncement?
A act of removing yourself from a group/organization.
What is seceding?
A compromise that allowed California to Enter as a free state, it also divided the rest of the Mexican Cession.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
One that could not be changed.
What is unamendable?
An 1857 Supreme Court case that had brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories.
What was the Dread Scott v. Standford?
To keep in an existing state.
What is maintaining?
To find an answer or solution to something.
What is resolving?
A law that made all citizens return escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The willingness to accept the law whether or not a person agreed with those laws.
What is an acquiescence?
A type of welfare in which small, informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics.
What is guerrilla warfare?
A person who gives up their life for their beliefs.
Who is a martyr?