Civil War Vocabulary Flashcards

The time period in American history before the Civil War.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe´s novel condemning slavery.

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

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