Vocabulary
Compromises and Acts
Causes of the Civil War
100
Nullification
The act of making legally null and void
100
This compromise prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri
No slavery over 36 30' line of lattitude
Missouri Compromise
100
What are the 3 main causes of the Civil War?
State's Rights, Sectionalism, Slavery
200
Secession
The act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War
200
California was admitted as a free state and Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
200
Involuntary servitude of African-Americans or Blacks in the United States from 1619-1865.
Slavery
300
Anaconda Plan
Union strategy to blockade southern ports, capture the Mississippi River.
300
Allowing Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state
Missouri Compromise
300
His Election in 1860 led to the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
400
Document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
400
What did the Fugitive Slave Act say?
Act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States
Part of the Compromise of 1850
400
This invention led to Southern Farmers buying record numbers of slaves.
Cotton Gin
500
Position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850.
Demanded the North enforce the Fugitive Slave Act or Georgia would secede.
Georgia Platform
500
The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to keep the balance of power in the ___________.
Senate
500
In 1857 the United States Supreme Court ruled seven to two against him, finding that neither he, nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United States, and that therefore he could not bring suit in federal court.
Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott
600
All of the assets that are used or can be used by the enemy are targeted, such as food sources, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the people in the area; Sherman employed this policy during his March to the Sea campaign.
Scorched Earth Policy
600
It allowed people in these two territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
(popular sovereignty)
600
The belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the national government.
Refers to the idea that the Southern states could secede from the Union if they disagreed with Federal policies
States’ Rights
700
Blockade Runner
Private Southern ships that attempted to “break” the Union blockade and trade cotton with European countries for manufactured goods.
700
Who was the Great Compromiser?
Henry Clay
700
The North supported high tariffs to subsidize their fledgling manufacturing industry against the cheaper products that could be sent to the United States by Great Britain. The South was opposed to this tariff because it took away profits from cotton farmers based on Great Britain’s retaliatory tariff on cotton.
Nullification Crisis of 1832