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- 2. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 5. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
- 6. also called War Between the States, a four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
- 8. A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it that attempted to give something to both sides. The compromise admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Part of the Compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which proved highly unpopular in the North. Senator Henry Clay was a force behind the passage of the compromise.
- 10. an American clergyman, educator, and politician who became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate (1870–71), representing Mississippi during Reconstruction.
- 11. a pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there.
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- 1. the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
- 3. an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
- 4. Measures enacted by the U.S. Congress for the division and settlement of the Northwest Territory, the frontier region extending north of the Ohio River to the Great Lakes and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River
- 7. was a series of violent clashes between supporters and opponents of slavery over control of the new territory
- 9. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.