Unit 4 Study Guide

Define the following terms:

o Republican Party
o Compromise
o Secede
o Fugitive
o Tarif
o Majority
o Martyr
o Sectionalism
o Treason
o Nationalism
o Emancipate
o Radical
o Cash Crop
o Liberty
o Mason-Dixon Line
o Freedmen
o Abolitionist
o Northwest Territory
o Arsenal
o Faction
Abolitionist Movement:
o What is it?
o What efect did it have on slavery?
o Was this an important movement? Why/why not?
Political Parties:
o What are the views of the Democratic party? Why did it split?
o What are the views of the Republican Party?
Underground Railroad:
o Why was the Underground Railroad so important to enslaved
Africans?
o What role did Michigan play in the Underground Railroad?
Fugitive Slave Act:
o What is it?
o How did it make it harder for a slave to run away?
o How did it make abolitionists feel?
How did the following increase the tension between the North and the
South?
o The Northwest Ordinance
o The Missouri Compromise
o The Wilmot Proviso
o The Compromise of 1850
o The Kansas-Nebraska Act

o Dred Scott Decision

How did slave uprisings efect the South? (the laws, how slaves were
viewed and how slaves were handled)