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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Slave | a state that permitted slavery |
| Free state | a state that does not permit slavery |
| states' rights | the rights of a state |
| missouri compromise | the right to have houses or homes and people to the state |
| underground railroad | homes or houses the used to help the sleves |
| compromise of 1850 | United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states |
| popular sovereignty | people is the principle that the authority of the government is created |
| insurrection | a violent uprising against an authority or government |
| treason | the crime of betraying one's country |
| martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs |
| secede | withdraw formally from membership in a federal union |
| Confederate state of America | Seven states joined before the war began, and four of the Upper South were admitted afterwards |
| Platform | the declared policy of a political party or group |
| Moderate | average in amount |
| Mandate | an official order or commission to do something |
| Agrarian | of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. |