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Antebellum
10 words (set 8)
Term | Definition |
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annex | to add |
abolitionists | people who wanted to end slavery |
antebellum | pre-Civil War period in U.S. history |
States' Rights | belief that a state's sovereignty (power) is more important than that of the national government |
Dred Scott case | Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States |
Compromise of 1850 | compromise between the North & South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act |
nullify | to legally cancel or invalidate |
secession | the act of separating from a nation or state & becoming independent |
sectionalism | extreme loyalty given to a particular region in the belief their ideas & interests must be protected from other regions |