8th History Vocab

runaway or trying to run away

• abstain

• border ruffians

• fugitive

to not take part in some activity, such as voting

• civil war

• secede

• abstain

Missourians who traveled in armed groups to wore in Kansas's election during the mid 1850s

• border ruffians

• underground railroad

• states rights

loyalty to a region

• sectionalism

• states rights

• secession

a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the south to freedom in north.

• civil war

• underground railroad

• states rights

conflict between two opposing groups of citizens from the same country

• secede

• martyr

• civil war

to leave or to withdraw

• secede

• secession

• arsenal

rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the constitution; the belief that states rights supersede federal rights and laws

• popular sovereignty

• states rights

• freedom

withdraw from the Union

• secession

• arsenal

• sectionalism

before the civil war, the idea that people had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there

• popular sovereignty

• underground railroad

• border ruffians