civil war vocab

5. Compromise 1820 - Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820).
6. of Guadalupe Hidalgo ,Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million.
7. Rights - the belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority, belief that because the states created the United States, individual states have the power to nullify federal laws.
8. K Polk The 11th U.S. President, he led the country during the Mexican War and sought to expand the United States.
9. Kansas A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
11. The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
12. Nebraska act This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.

1. Proviso Bill, that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
2. American War - 1846 - 1848 - President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, American ended up with 55% of Mexico's land
3. Purchase Southwestern territory acquired by the Pierce administration to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad and completed the lower 48 States
4. Slave Act a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
7. - Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
10. of 1850 Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War.