Civil War

4. States The four slave states (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri) that remained in the Union during the Civil War.
6. of 1850 Five separate bills that admitted California as a free state, created Utah and New Mexico territories with popular sovereignty, and included the Fugitive Slave Act.
8. Proviso A proposal by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania in 1846 to completely ban slavery in any new territories acquired from Mexico.
9. Rights The political principle that individual states should have significant power and authority, often used to defend slavery.
10. Turner’s Rebellion A violent uprising of slaves in Virginia being led by Nat Turner. This led to an increase in tensions and fear surrounding the issue of slavery.
11. Slave Act A law requiring law enforcement throughout the US to arrest runaway slaves and return them to their owners, with harsh penalties for those who refused to help.
12. Law The temporary rule by military authorities over civilian populations, used by Lincoln in Maryland to keep it in the Union.
16. The growing division and loyalty to one's own region (North or South) rather than to the nation as a whole.
17. Railroad An organized network of individuals who helped hide and move runaway slaves north to freedom in Canada.
19. Debates (1858) A series of public debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the Illinois Senate race, focused on the slavery issue.

1. A person who advocated for the immediate end of slavery throughout the United States.
2. Kansas" The period of violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas Territory during the 1850s.
3. States of America The independent nation declared by the secessionist Southern states in February 1861, with Jefferson Davis as president.
5. Soil Party A political party formed in 1848 by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats who opposed expanding slavery to western territories.
7. Act (1854) Legislation that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing popular sovereignty on slavery.
9. The act of formally withdrawing from the Union, first done by South Carolina on December 20, 1860.
13. Brown's Raid An 1859 attack on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, led by abolitionist John Brown in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
14. Compromise An agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery in future states north of Missouri's southern border.
15. Sumter The federal fort in Charleston Harbor where the Civil War officially began when Confederate forces bombarded it in April 1861.
18. Scott Decision (1857) A Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not US citizens and could not sue in federal courts, and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.