Pre-civil war
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13 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 secede | to withdraw from membership in a group |
| arsenal | warehouse for guns and ammunition |
| popular sovereignty | allowing each territory to decide whether to allow slavery |
| slave code | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied basic rights |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country. |
| compromise | settlement in which each side gives up some of it's demands in order to reach an agreement. |
| civil war | war between people of the same country |
| states' rights | idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
| platform | beliefs or ideas that a person supports in a political campaign |
| fugitive | runaway |
| racism | belief that one race is superior to another |
| abolitionist | person who wanted to end slavery in the U.S. |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
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