Civil War Causes Vocabulary

A term that means "to withdraw or separate from one's country" is

• enlist

• connect

• secede

The network of people offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves from the South was called the

• Compromise of 1850

• Underground Railroad

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Unjust bias or prejudice against a specific category of people is called

• discrimination

• confusion

• treason

A word for "a person who is killed for their beliefs" is

• fugitive

• debtor

• martyr

The idea that power in government comes from the people, and specifically that the legality of slavery in new states and territories should be decided by elections, is called

• public opinion

• popular sovereignty

• civil disobedience

The court case in which a slave sued for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and couldn't sue in the first place, was

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

People who wanted to completely outlaw slavery were called

• abolitionists

• anti-abolitionists

• free soilers

A law that required slaves to be returned to their owners, even if escaping to a free state, was called

• the Underground Railroad

• the Fugitive Slave Act

• the Affordable Care Act

Rules based on the concept that enslaved persons were property and not people were called

• slave codes

• social reforms

• nativists

Machines that made farming a certain crop more profitable, and therefore further promoted the use of slavery, were called

• mills

• interchangeable parts

• cotton gins