Vocabulary: A Nation Divided-The American Civil War

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Industrial

• Abolitionist

• Inauguration

• Jim Crow Laws

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.

• Reconstruction

• Popular Sovereignty

• Jim Crow Laws

• 15th Amendment

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

• Segregation

• Underground Railroad

• Isolate

• Secession

A series of improvements in technology that transformed the process of making goods.

• Industrial

• 14th Amendment

• Agriculture

• Advocate

Farming

• Encounter

• Crisis

• Industrial

• Agriculture

A amendment that guaranteed voting rights to former slaves regardless of race.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• 15 Amendment

• Fugitive Slave Act

someone who is running away or escapaing

• advocate

• Kl Klux Klan

• fugitive

• freedmen

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.

• Inauguration

• Secession

• Sectionalism

• Reconstruction

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Industrial

• Reconstruction

• 13th Amendment

• Segregation

The constitutional amendment that forbade slavery after the Civil War.

• 15 Amendment

• 13 Amendment

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Jim Crow Laws