How many free states were there in 1819?
11
To remove
secede
Battled antislavery forces in Kansas
Border ruffians
Gun warehouse
Arsenal
One that could not be changed
Unamendable
Called for a law to ban slavery in any territory won from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
runaway
fugitive
A legal case brought to settle a dispute between two groups
Lawsuit
An act against ones own country
Treason
Most southerners thought they had the right to secede. This is called what?
Confederacy
The right of the people to make their own Gov.
Popular sovereignty
allowed California to enter as a free state.
Compromise of 1850
Hit and run tactics
Guerilla warfare
Someone who died for their cause.
Martyr
A fort which the confederates thought they needed to have.
Fort Sumter
Free-Soil Party
a war between people of the same country
Civil War
set up a gov. for the Nebraska and Kansas territory.
Kansas Nebraska act
A new party that moved to the forefront of the slavery issue.
Republican Party
One of America's bloodiest wars.
The Civil War
Kept the number of slave and free states equal.
Missouri Compromise
required all citizens to return a runaway slave to their owner.
Fugitive slave act
Fred Scott vs Sandford
A raid in which the national Gun arsenal was attacked.
John Brown's Raid
A war hero who fought in the Mexican War in the 1800's
Jefferson Davis