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Chapter 9 History
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Missouri Compromise | An 1820 agreement by congress that sllowed slavery south a line drawn west ward from the southern border of Missouri and forbade slavery north of the line |
| albolitionist | One who wanted to abolish slavery in the United States as soon as possible. |
| Secession | The action taken if a state decided to leave the Union. |
| Compromise of 1850 | An agreement by Congress that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, but guaranteed the protection of slavery with a stronger fugitive slave law that ordered every American citizen to return. |
| Naval blockade | The use of a fleet of ships to prevent ships carrying supplies from reaching ports. |
| Blockade runner | A low-lying steamship paint gray to match the ocean and fool pursuers that was able to slip through the naval blockade. |
| conscript | To force to join the military. |
| buffaloes | A man in the Tidewater region that hid rather than fight for the confederacy. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | A Union general posted the posted the announcement at the right, declared the freedom of enslaved african americans. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | The U.S Spreme court delivered a shattering blow to antislavery forces. Scott was a enslaved person once owned by a U.S army doctor. After the army, the doctor lived in Missouri with Scott. Scott argued that he was a free because he lived where slavery wa |
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