Vocab chp 8

Popular Sovereignty

• The state operates independently of its people.
• Citizens have no role in decision-making.
• Government subject to the will of the people; before the Civil war, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting whether slavery would be allowed there

• The government is controlled by a single ruler.

Secession

• establishment of a new political party.

• act of negotiating treaties.

• Withdrawal from the union

• process of joining a political entity.

Underground Railroad

• A secret society of abolitionists.
• A transportation system for goods.
• A historical novel about slavery.
• Informal system used to help runaway slaves from the south escape to the north

Transcontinental Railroad

• The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1876.
• A railway system extending across the continent

• built entirely by steam engines.

• Railroad connected only the East Coast to the West Coast.

Bleeding Kansas

• Term used to describe Kansas due to the fighting between pro slavery and anti-slavery groups there

• Kansas City
• Kansas Territory
• Bleeding Edge

Republican Party

• Party formed in 1854 with the hopes of stopping the spread of slavery to the territories

• The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature

• Libertarian Party
• Government subject to the will of the people; before the Civil war, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting whether slavery would be allowed there

Dred Scott

• The law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency 

• Dred Scott v. Ferguson (1896)
• Escaped slave who was forced to return to slavery after the death of his master

• Term used to describe Kansas due to the fighting between pro slavery and anti-slavery groups there

Referendum

• A method of electing representatives.
• A legal document outlining government structure.
• The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature

• A type of political party system.

Insurrection

• Insurrection is a peaceful protest against authority.
• Insurrection refers to a formal agreement with authority.
• Insurrection is a type of government policy.
• An act of rebellion against the established government

Border States

• Ohio
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• Slave states that bordered the northern free states