Causes of the Civil War Vocabulary

Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people; before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there

• TARIFF

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

• CULTURE

• NULLIFY

to cancel or make ineffective

• TARIFF

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

• CULTURE

• NULLIFY

A tax on imported or exported goods

• TARIFF

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

• CULTURE

• NULLIFY

A way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs

• TARIFF

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

• CULTURE

• NULLIFY

To leave or withdraw from

• STATES’ RIGHTS

• PLANTATION

• MANUFACTURE

• SECEDE

To make or produce goods

• STATES’ RIGHTS

• PLANTATION

• MANUFACTURE

• SECEDE

A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who lived there

• STATES’ RIGHTS

• PLANTATION

• MANUFACTURE

• SECEDE

Rights and power independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution; the belief that states’ rights supersede federal rights and law

• STATES’ RIGHTS

• PLANTATION

• MANUFACTURE

• SECEDE

Relating to farming

• STATES’ RIGHTS

• AGRICULTURE

• MANUFACTURE

• SECEDE

Relating to that within a city

• STATES’ RIGHTS

• AGRICULTURE

• MANUFACTURE

• URBAN