Unit 10 Vocabulary Pre Civil War

Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state

a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens

unequal treatment based on a person’s race, gender, religion, place of birth

the United States as one nation united under a single government.

the feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force

a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)

a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner that took place in Virginia in 1831

The belief that one race is superior to another

to withdraw from an organization or alliance

a secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of slaves escape