Unit 3: The Civil War (Vocabulary Part 1)

3. The social and economic division between the Northern and Mid-Western states and the Southern states.
7. The founder and the editor of The Liberator.
10. This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery.
13. A rebellion against slavery that killed 60 whites and ultimately led to many African Americans becoming victims of mob violence.
14. A movement designed to limit the expansion of slavery and ultimately end it all together.

1. In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown
2. This decision settled a lawsuit in which a slave named Dred Scott claimed he should be a free man because he had lived with his master in slave states and in free states. The Court rejected Scott's claim, ruling that no African American (even if free) could be a U.S. citizen.
4. An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
5. As part of this compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
6. The most influential African-American in the abolitionist movement.
7. An amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territorial settlement with Mexico.
8. The issue over whether or not states could nullify federal law.
9. A war between Mexico and the United states over the Mexican territories of New Mexico and California.
11. Rule by the people.
12. Southern women who lectured publicly throughout the northern states about the evils of slavery they had seen growing up on a plantation.