| Term | Definition |
| The Civil War began when- | Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter. |
| Sectionalism | is regional loyalty. |
| Which man was known as the Great Compromiser? | Henry Clay |
| A tariff | is a tax on imported goods. |
| The Dred Scott decision | ruled that slavery was legal. |
| Andrew Jackson believed that | the federal government should have authority over the states. |
| The Emancipation Proclamation- | freed slaves in those parts of the South that were still fighting against the Union. |
| The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War because- | the weakened Southern army could no longer try to invade the North. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin was | a best-selling novel that opposed slavery. |
| The 1828 tax on imported goods mainly benefited | the North. |
| The Union's first plan for defeating the South- | blocked goods from going into and out of Southern ports. |
| Maine joined the United States as a free state | to balance Missouri, a slave state. |
| Dred Scott argued that he should be free because | he had once lived in a free state. |
| Emancipation means | the freeing of the slaves. |
| The Missouri Compromise | kept balance between slave and free states. |
