Unit 5 Review

one who wanted to do away with slavery

a system where the residents vote to decide an issue (as in whether a state is going to be a slave or free state)

to invalidate a federal law; when a state decides they are not going to follow a federal law

when the southern states leave the union

the right of a state to govern themselves without the intrusion of the Federal Government

Admitted California as a free state, abolished slavery in the Distrcit of Columbia (D.C.), created the Fugitive Slave Act, let New Mexico and Utah decide for themselves whether they will be free or slave

Maine is admitted as a free state, Missouri is admitted as a slave state, slavery prohibited north of the 36, 30 latitide line

Lincoln wins the Presidency. The final blow leading to southern secession.

Kansas and Nebraska could vote on their own as to whether they were to be admitted to the Union as a slave or free state. (popular sovereignty)

Worst Confederate war prison in the Civil War.

Strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the confederacy by surrounding them and not letting them export or import anything.

An order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in the rebelling states.

It ruled that slaves are the property of their owners and had no rights.

He asked GA citizens to accept the compromise of 1850 and not secede from the Union; became the VP of the Confederacy

Part of the Anaconda Plan where Union ships blocked access to trade and supplies from Southern ports