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Grade 7 Unit 9
pre-Civil War Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Missouri Compromise | An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state and outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36⁰30’ latitude. |
| Sectionalism | A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole. |
| Popular Sovereignty | The idea that political authority belongs to the people. |
| Wilmot Proviso | A proposal made in 1846 to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the US by the Mexican cession. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican cession into territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law passed in 1850 that made it illegal to help run-away slaves; it allowed slaves to be arrested in areas where slavery was illegal and required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | A law passed in 1854 that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery. |
| John Brown's Raid | An incident in 1859 in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave revolt. |
| Secede | To formally withdrawal from the Union. |
| Confederate States of America | The nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy. |
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