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U.S. Civil War Terms

Civil War History

U.S. Civil War TermsDefinitions
Dred-Scott Famous (or infamous) case in which Supreme Court ruled that slaves can only be considered as "property" and not as citizens, and therefore could not sue in federal court.
Stephen Douglas Senator from Illinois who introduced idea of popular sovereignty in Kansas-Nebraska Act and who ran against Lincoln.
Missouri Compromise Federal law which divided free states in the North from slave states in the South at the 36 degree parallel.
Abraham Lincoln U.S. President during the Civil War who led the Union to victory and who freed the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation.
Great Compromise Law passed by Congress in 1850 with five provisions designed to ease tensions between the North and the South. One of these made California a free state and another was the Fugitive Slave Act.
popular sovereignty A concept introduced by Stephen Douglas which stated that the citizens of each new state formed in the western territories should vote on whether they should be slave or free.
Chief Justice Taney Leader of Supreme Court justices who ruled against Dred-Scott in an effort to preserve the Union.
Bloody Kansas A statewide civil war in Kansas that resulted when free-soilers and pro-slavery forces from around the country migrated to Kansas and started a shooting war over the political destiny of this state.
Harriet Beecher-Stowe Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", a book which inflamed Northerners against their slaveholding neighbors to the south.
George Fitzhugh Southerner and author of "Cannibals All!", a book which claimed that Northern factory workers were "slaves without a master."
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