| A | B |
|---|
| Popular Sovereignty | people's decision on slavery |
| Missouri Compromise | 36 30'N N-free S-slave exc. Mo |
| Wilmot Proviso | no slavery in Mexican Won Lands |
| Free Soil Party | goal to keep slavery out of western territories |
| sectionalism | loyalty to state or section rather than to whole country |
| compromise of 1850 | california as a free state, slave trade in D.C. ended, Mexican Cession divided in 2 and fugitive slave law passed |
| fugitive slave law | forced northerners to catch runaways and return them home |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska |
| Bleeding Kansas | name given after violence over slavery |
| Border Ruffians | proslavery bands from Missouri who battled antislavery forces from Kansas |
| Copperheads | northerner who thought south should secede from the Union |
| Profiteer | person who takes advantage of an emergency to profit |
| 10 percent plan | 10% oath of loyalty to union, abolish slavery, allowed to vote and hold office |
| Wade Davis Bill | majority of white men swear loyalty and volunteers in Confederacy not allowed to vote or hold office |
| Freedmen's Bureau | government agency that helped former slaves |
| Black Codes | laws that limited freedmen's rights after civil war |
| scalawags | white southerner who supported Radical Republicans |
| Carpetbaggers | northerner who went south during Reconstruction |
| Jim Crow Laws | segregating of Public Places |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | segregation was legal as long as facitilities were equal |
