Before the Civil War

restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.

• Confederacy

• Abollition

• Reconstruction

• Sectionalism

the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

ie. Slavery

• Reconstruction

• Blockade

• Abolition

• Emancipation

involves the temporary substitution of military authority for civilian rule and is usually invoked in time of war, rebellion, or natural disaster.

• Blockade

• Confederacy

• Martial Law

• Reconstruction

the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

• Abolition

• Confederacy

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropper

a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

• Abolition

• Sharecropper

• Martial Law

• Emancipation

a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

• Emancipation

• Blockade

• Confederacy

• Secede

an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

• Martial Law

• Blockade

• Secede

• Abolition

withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

• Emancipation

• Sectonaliism

• Secede

• Emancipation

the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.

• Abolition

• Emancipation

• Blockade

• Sharecropper

This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision