Civil War Vocabulary Flashcards

Front

Antebellum

Back

The time period in American history before the Civil War.

Front

Sectionalism

Back

A feeling of allegiance to the area of the country one lives rather than the nation as a whole (North, South, and West).

Front

Manifest Destiny

Back

the 19th Century American belief that the United States was to expand across the continent.

Front

Mexican Cession

Back

Mexico ceded 55% of its territory, including the present-day southwestern states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado to the United States after the Mexican-American War.

Front

Popular Sovereignty

Back

The right of a territory or state to determine for themselves if they want to allow slavery or forbid it.

Front

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Back

1854 act of Congress that allowed for popular sovereignty to determine the slavery issue in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

Front

Bleeding Kansas

Back

the period of repeated outbreaks o.f violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces

Front

Uncle Tom´s Cabin

Back

Harriet Beecher Stowe´s novel condemning slavery.

Front

Dred Scott v Sanford

Back

1857 Supreme Court case ruling determining that slaves were not citizens so they couldn't use the courts and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

Front

Abolitionist

Back

A person who actively argued for an end to slavery (William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, John Brown)