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Civil War Causes Fls
Causes of the Civil War Flash Cards Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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) |