topic 8 vocab

Question 1

an agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal

Answer 1

Missouri Compromise

Question 2

government by consent of the governed

Answer 2

popular sovereignty

Question 3

the bipartisan antislavery party founded in the U.S in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western territories

Answer 3

Free-Soil Party

Question 4

to withdraw from membership in a group

Answer 4

secede

Question 5

a runaway

Answer 5

fugative

Question 6

an agreement over slavery by which California joined the Union as a free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

Answer 6

Compromise of 1850

Question 7

one of two acts passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the capture and return of fugitive slaves

Answer 7

fugitive slave act

Question 7

an 1854 law that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.

Answer 7

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 7

a type of warfare in which small. informal military groups use surprise attacks and hit-and-run tactics

Answer 7

guerrilla warfare

Question 8

Proslavery bands from Missouri who often battled antislavery forces in Kansas

Answer 8

Border Ruffian

Question 9

an 1857 supreme court case that brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories

Answer 9

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 10

a political party established in the U.S in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories

Answer 10

republican party

Question 11

a place where guns are stored

Answer 11

arsenal

Question 12

a betrayal or action against one’s country

Answer 12

treason

Question 13

a person who dies for his or her beliefs

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martyr

Question 14

unable to be changed

Answer 14

unamendable

Question 15

agreeing or accepting something without arguing about it

Answer 15

acquiescence

Question 16

a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War

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Border State

Question 17

the first major battle of the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861; also called the Battle of Manassas

Answer 17

Battle of Bull Run

Question 18

An ironclad warship used by the Confederate in an attempt to break the Union blockade

Answer 18

Virginia

Question 19

an ironclad warship

Answer 19

monitor

Question 20

an 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg

Answer 20

Battle of Antietam

Question 21

an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union’s worst defeats

Answer 21

Battle of Fredricksburg

Question 22

an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy

Answer 22

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 23

an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory

Answer 23

Battle of Shiloh

Question 24

a war between people of the same country

THis was THE one YOU WERE MISSING

Answer 24

civil war