Topic Eight Vocab

Lesson One

100

To withdraw from membership in a group.

Secede

200

A war between people of the same country.

Civil war

300

One of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves.

Fugitive Slave Act

400

Government by consent of the governed.

Popular sovereignty

500

An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal.

Missouri Compromise

Lesson One and Two

100

A political party established in the United States in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of western territories.

Republican Party

200

An 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

300

An 1857 Supreme Court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery on the territories.

Dredd Scott v. Sanford

400

A person who dies for his or her beliefs.

Martyr

500

An agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed.

Compromise 1850

Lesson Three and Four

100

An ironclad warship used by the Confederate in an attempt to break the Union blockade.

Virginia (CSS)

200

An ironclad Union warship.

Monitor (USS)

300

A slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War.

Border state

400

Making it easy for something to happen.

Conducive

500

Agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it.

Acquiescence

Lesson Four and Five

100

An 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved African Americans in Confederate territory.

Emancipation Proclamation

200

The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.

Habeas corpus

300

The first major battle of the Civil War fought in Virginia in 1861.

Battle of Bull Run

400

An 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory.

Battle of Shiloh

500

An 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland.

Battle of Antietam

Lesson Six

100

The speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg.

Gettysburg Address

200

To surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops to force it to surrender.

Siege

300

The failed Confederate charge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Pickett's Charge

400

An 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended in a Union victory and stopped the Confederate invasion of the North.

Battle of Gettysburg

500

A court house, in a Virginia town, that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865.

Appomattox Court House