Unit 4 Lesson 1 Vocabulary

The name seceding states gave themselves as a newly formed government

• Confederate States of America

• The Union

• The Sovereign States

• United States of America

the beginning of the Civil War

• November 1860

• January 1, 1863

• April 12, 1861

• April 15, 1865

someone who wanted to end slavery

• Republican

• Democrat

• Confederate

• Abolitionist

People who wanted to stay in the Union and work out differences over slavery

• Confederates

• Unionists

• Abolitionists

• Slaves

Supremacy of the states and the rights of the people to hold slaves

• Independence

• Sovereignty

• Supremacy

• Abolition

the argument that state power was greater than federal power

• federalism

• states' rights

• sovereignty

• tariffs

To end something

• Secede

• Annex

• Abolish

• Ratify

A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

• Customs Duties

• States' Rights

• Slavery

• Tariff

formally withdraw from the Union

• annex

• abolish

• secede

• ratify