Civil War Vocab

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  1. 4. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
  2. 6. 1st and only confederate president
  3. 8. A nickname for the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy.
  4. 9. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.
  5. 11. 16th president in 1861
  6. 12. Scott decision A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.
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  1. 1. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  2. 2. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
  3. 3. Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South. The Confederacy was a group of states that left the United States to form their own country.
  4. 5. also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political or religious organization
  5. 7. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  6. 10. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.