Causes of the Civil War - TCI section 20

abolitionist

• A person who doesn't care if there is slavery or not

• A person who wants to keep slavery and expand it

• a person who wanted to end, or abolish, slavery

Civil War

• The Civil War was fought between the Northern states (Union) and the Southern states (Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865.

• The Civil War took place in the 19th century between European countries

• The Civil War was a conflict between the Eastern and Western states

• The Civil War was fought between the United States and Mexico

Confederacy

• the states that made up the northern section in the Civil War

• all the states in the north and south together

• the nation formed by the 11 states (in order of secession—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee) that left the Union

seceded

• to join a government or a country

• to officially withdraw from a government or a country

• to stay in a government or country

• to fight in a government or country

sectionalism

• support for a only one region of the country

• support for the whole world

• support for a whole country

Underground Railroad

• system of trains used to transport goods underground

• secret routes used by spies during wartime

• A series of tunnels built for mining purposes

• secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada

Union

• during the Civil War, the government and the armies of the states that chose to remain a part of the United States

• the states the left the United States

• the states that were between the North and the South

• the territories that were not part of the states yet