Civil War Study Guide

the idea that states, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about matters that affect them

• States' rights

• civilian

• civil war

• union

someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end, slavery

• telegraph

• secession

• abolitionist

• Civil War

a person who is running away

• emancipation

• civilian

• fugitive

• States' rights

when part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest

• price incentive

• abolitionist

• secession

• Civil War

affects people's behavior and choices about what crops to grow and products to produce

• fugitive

• civilian

• secession

• price incentive

another name for the United States

• union

• states' rights

• emancipation

• telegraph

the freeing of enslaved people

• Civil War

• emancipation

• telegraph

• price incentive

a person who is not in the military

• abolitionist

• fugitive

• civilian

• telegraph

a machine that sends electric signals over wires to communicate over long distances

• civilian

• states' rights

• telegraph

• union

a war between two groups of regions within a nation

• fugitive

• Civil War

• emancipation

• telegraph