US History 3.1-3.2 Vocabulary

Proposed banning slavery from any land purchased from Mexico

Created to oppose Democrats, didnt call for abolition of slavery, against extension of slavery

Freed slaves in states in rebellion against Union, maintaining slavery in states loyal to Union

War btwn northern states (Union) & southern states (Confederacy) over states rights & slavery

Required northern states forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners in the South.

Network of people, including Harriet Tubman, who helped slaves escape to northern US & Canada

the will of the majority

Election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, who opposed expansion of slavery, caused SC to secede

Electing to leave the Union

Site where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant effectively ending the Civil War.

SC ruled slaves cant sue bc are not citizens & slave owners couldnt be deprived of property

Republic formed by southern states that seceded from the Union; Jefferson Davis as president

Fictional novel describing the horrors of a slave family; motivated many to support abolition

Union plan to surround the Confederacy and cut off all supply lines

CA admitted as free state, popular sovereignty decided slavery in NM & UT, Fugitive Slave Law

Radical abolitionist attacked federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry to seize weapons to give slaves

Repealed the Missouri Compromise & reignited the slavery issue by allowing popular sovereignty

Missouri added as slave state & Maine added as free state, temporarily settled issue of slavery in the territories

Right of state govt to establish own laws where the Constitution doesnt empower national govt

SC location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War