Unit 7 Vocabulary

a war/conflict between citizens of the same country

• Civil War

• Revolutionary War

• Naval War

• Citizens War

The northern states during the Civil War, which remained with the original US government

• Confederacy

• Western states

• Union

• Border states

The southern states during the Civil War who seceded from the Union

• Union

• Western states

• Border states

• Confederacy

to withdraw or break away from

• break

• withdraw

• secede

• leave

slave states that did not secede from the Union

• Western states

• Union

• Confederacy

• Border states

a division of a population into opposing factions (groups)

• division

• secede

• Confederacy

• polarization

enslaved people who have run away

• Fugitives

• Runaways

• Passengers

• Conductors

policy having people vote directly on issues rather than having elected officials decide

• Voting

• Popular Sovereignty

• Election

• Diplomacy

set free from legal, social, or political restrictions

• abolition

• emancipate

• dissemble

• enfranchise

attempt to force surrender by blocking the movement of people or goods into or out of a place

• surrender

• blockade

• siege

• surround