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US History Unit 8
The Union Challenged
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Compromise of 1850 | agreements made to admit California into the Union as a free state. They included allowing the New Mexico & Utah territories to decide about slavery, outlawing the trade of slaves in Washington, D.C., & creating a stronger law targeting fugitives slaves |
| Dred Scott decision | 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 |
| fugitive | a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery) |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 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 |
| Lincoln-Douglas debates | 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 |
| Missouri Compromise | an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state that allowed enslavement and Maine was admitted as a state that banned enslavement |
| Union | 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. |
| Wilmot Proviso | a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War |
| Appomattox Court House | a village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to Union forces under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant |
| civil war | a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country |
| Confederacy | another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate states to be free |
| Gettysburg Address | a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded |
| habeas corpus | the right of an accused person to appear in court so a judge can determine whether that person is being imprisoned lawfully |
| Black Codes | laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans |
| civil rights | the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law |
| Fifteenth Amendment | a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1870, declaring that states cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color or because the person was once enslaved |
| Fourteenth Amendment | a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteeing all individuals equal protection of the law |
| Freedman's Bureau | an agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed Black Americans |
| Jim Crow laws | laws enforcing segregation of Black people and White people in the South after the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | the period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union as the federal government addressed the impact of slavery |
| Thirteenth Amendment | a change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States |
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