Civil War Vocabulary

Popular Sovereignty

• the idea that the power of a state and its government are created and sustained by the permission of its people

• a type of cloth or woven fabric

• an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

• to publicly support a cause or people

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harry Styles

• Harrison Ford

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Confederacy

• another term for Confederate States of America (The South) that broke away from the Union in 1860

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

• Also called the North or the United States, the Union was the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War

• the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government

Violence breaks out in Kansas over slavery.

• Missouri Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

• Civil War

• Compromise of 1850

Textile

• a type of cloth or woven fabric

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

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

• economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo granted the US the Mexican Cession (more land)

• End of the Mexican War of Independence

• End of the Civil War

• End of the Mexican-American War

• End of the American Revolution

Sectionalism

• an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

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

• the idea that the power of a state and its government are created and sustained by the permission of its people

• the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government

Industry

• Also called the North or the United States, the Union was the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War

• economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

• a type of cloth or woven fabric

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

Discussed the impact of slavery. Best Selling novel.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• My Life

• The Illiad

• Greek Lives

South=Slave states

• False

• True