Download Chapter 21 A Dividing Nation Vocabulary Review Directions: Match

Chapter 21 A Dividing Nation Vocabulary Review
Directions: Match the vocabulary term with its definition. On your sheet of paper, write the
vocabulary term next to the corresponding number.
Vocabulary Term:
Compromise of 1850
fugitive
Dred Scott decision
Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown’s Raid
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
secede Union
Wilmot Proviso
Definition:
1.) the United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War,
“the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North.
2.) an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union
as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
3.) a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were
candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue
4.) a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as
a result of the Mexican-American War
5.) a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)
6.) the agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These
agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to
allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger
fugitive slave law.
7.) an act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the
Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed
in the new territories
8.) a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be
citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
9.) to withdraw from an organization or alliance
10.)
was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the
Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
11.)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American
author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork
for the Civil War"
12.)
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown
to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia.