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Section 1 SS Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boom | swift growth |
| Cultivate | prepare for planting |
| "Cottoncracy" | wealthy family in south |
| Slave Code | couldn't become free |
| Extended Family | beyond nuclear family such as grandparents, aunts, and uncles |
| Cash Crop | crop grown for cash/market only |
| Discrimination | practice that denies rights to group of people |
| Missouri Compromise | same number of free and slave states |
| Popular Sovereignty | people can create their own government |
| Free Soil Party | political party banning slavery |
| Secede | Remove from a bigger entity |
| Fugitive | free slave |
| Civil War | war between people of the same country |
| Compromise of 185 | 5 provisions to satisfying north and south debate of slavery |
| Fugitive Slave Act | citizens had to help capture runaways, or else jailed |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty above Missouri compromise |
| Border Ruffian | men who crossed borders and caused violence, made threats to anti slavery settlers |
| Guerrilla Warfare | informal military group who commits surprise attacks |
| Dred Scott V Sanford | court case refusing slaves rights to be free even if in a free state |
| Aresenal | warehouse of weapons |
| Treason | actions against one's country |
| Martyr | give up ones rights for a strong belief |