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Civil War Causes Fls
Causes of the Civil War Flash Cards Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Abolition | The desire to end slavery |
Arsenal | A collection or supply of weapons or munitions |
Civil War | War between people within the same country |
Compromise | Agreement in which each side gives up part of what it wants to end a disagreement |
Confederacy | The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61 |
Fugitive | Runaway |
Massacre | A general slaughter of people |
Morality | Conformity to the rules of right conduct as accepted by society |
Nullify | To cancel a federal law |
Popular Sovereignty | People decide through voting whether to be a slave or free territory |
Propaganda | False or misleading information that is spread to further a cause Secede (secession) |
Tariff | Tax on foreign goods |
Underground Railroad | A network of people, both black and white, northerners and southerners, who secretly helped slaves escape |
Union | The states that did not secede during the Civil War (North, border slave states and west) |