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States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas

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A federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina

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Also known as the confederacy

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Those who wanted the South to secede

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States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina

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They included Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

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A place where weapons are made or stored

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A court case in which an enslaved man named Dred Scott filed suit against his owner, he argued that he had once lived in states where slavery was legal so he should be free.

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They worked to end slavery in certain territories

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Letting the people in a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed there

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The act supported the practice of popular sovereignty

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Movement to ensure that native-born Americans received better treatment than immigrants

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Theory that holds that the Constitution divided power between the states and the federal government and that a strict interpretation of that division must be respected

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Part of the Compromise of 1850, a law ordering all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of slaves

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Agreement designed to ease tensions over the expansion of slavery into western territories

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Outdated

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An unreasonable, usually favorable opinion of another group

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The United States as a national unit; or, during the Civil War, the North