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Antebellum Vocabular
Term | Definition |
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Slave State | State that permits slavery |
Free State | State that does not permit slavery |
States' Rights | The rights and responsibilities of the state are the same as the federal government. |
Missouri Compromise | Comprimse that allowed Missouri to become a free state |
Underground Railroad | Pathway to transport slaves to the North |
Compromise of 1850 | California becomes a free state |
Popular Sovereignty | The people living in the area decide what happens upon a certain issue |
Insurrection | Armed Rebellion |
Treason | To betray someone of a group |
Martyr | Dies in what they believe in |
Secede | Withdraw from the union |
Confederate States of America | The southern states |
Platform | Statement that political groups support |
Moderate | Not an extremist |
Mandate | A person enforeces certain policies |
Agrarian | Bases with agriculture |