Civil War Vocabulary

concern for regional needs and interests

• Nationalism

• Patriotism

• Sectionalism

• Regionalism

the withdrawal of a state from a union

• secession

• annex

• amend

• alter

a political party that opposed any territorial expansion of slavery

• Free Soil Party

• Democrat Party

• Whig Party

• Know Nothing Party

a state on the border between the North and the South that stayed loyal to the Union but was pro-slavery

• Middle America State

• Sectionalism

• Mixed Up State

• Border State

allowing states to choose for themselves if they wanted to allow slavery

• Border States

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive

• Comproise

an alliance formed for a common purpose

• Confederacy

• Secede

• Fugitive

• Free Soil Party

a person who is running away from legal authority

• Border Ruffian

• Fugitive

• Free Soil

• Whig

an armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas

• Secede

• Border State

• Fugitive

• Border Ruffian

a conflict between citizens of the same country

• Civil War

• Popular Sovereignty

• Border Ruffian

• Martyr

a person who dies for a cause

• Vigilante

• Martyr

• Border Ruffian

• Pacifist