Chapter 9 Vocabulary #1

A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery

• states' rights

• abolitionist

• secession

• blockade

the separation of a state from a nation

• abolitionist

• enlist

• Confederacy

• secession

the right of each U.S. state to make its own laws

• states' rights

• enlist

• blockade

• Underground Railroad

a series of secret routes out of the South along which a escaped slaves traveled to freedom

• abolitionist

• Underground Railroad

• secession

• Confederacy

to join the military

• secession

• blockade

• enlist

• abolitionist

a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area

• Confederacy

• Underground Railroad

• enlist

• blockade

the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation

• Confederacy

• Underground Railroad

• enlist

• states' right