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Civil War Terms
civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the idea that states have the right to limit the power of the Federal Gov’t. | states’ rights |
| to withdraw(leave) from the Union | secede |
| a person who wanted to end slavery | abolitionist |
| a person who takes the law into his own hands | vigilante |
| a machine that removes seeds from the cotton | cotton gin |
| invented the cotton gin in 1793 | Eli Whitney |
| this act gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide if their state would have slavery or not – the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had stated that the area would be free | Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 |
| Dred Scott case (Scott v. Sandford) |