MO Social Studies Chapter 6 (Part 1) Vocabulary Quiz

a large farm that often grows one cash crop

• abolitionists

• border states

• plantations

the system of secret routes used by people escaping slavery

• Kansas Border War

• Underground Railroad

• Dred Scott Decision

a person who works to end slavery

• abolitionists

• seceded

• Emancipation Proclamation

Supreme Court decision that said Enslaved Africans were property

• Dred Scott Decision

• Civil War

• plantations

legislation in 1854 that opened the two territories and allowed voters to decide whether to allow slavery

• Dred Scott Decision

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

a war between Missouri and Kansas that started six years before the Civil War

• Underground Railroad

• Kansas Border War

• Emancipation Proclamation

the belief that each state should be allowed  to make decisions

• states' rights

• Civil War

• seceded

 to withdraw or formally leave an organization such as a government

• plantations

• Union

• seceded

the states that seceded from the Union  and formed a separate government from 1860-1865

• Civil War

• Kansas-Border War

• Confederate States of America

the states that that make up the United States. Used during the Civil War to refer to the government of the Northern States

• Union

• plantations

• states' rights