Sectionalism/CW vocab & people

A conflict between the federal government and South Carolina over 

high tariffs

• Nullification Crisis

• Election of 1828

• Proclamation Line

• Sectionalism

The Southern states where slavery was allowed. These states fought against the North in the Civil War

• West

• Union

• California
• Confederacy

to formally withdraw from a 

nation or political union

• integration
• dissolution
• secede

• annexation

The principle that the government comes from the consent of the people

• Federalism

• Divine right of kings
• Popular sovereignty
• Government by decree

freeing someone from legal, social, or political restrictions, such as slavery or oppression.

• Oppression
• Subjugation
• Confinement
• Emancipation

loyalty to a particular region or section of a country rather than to the country as a whole

• Patriotism
• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Regionalism

a formal speech or statement given by a leader or public figure, often addressing important issues or policies.

• address
• announcement
• speech
• declaration

The Northern states that did 

not allow slavery. These states fought 

against the South in the Civil War

• Alabama

• Confederates

• Union

• Abolitionists

period after the U.S. 

Civil War when the Southern states were reintegrated into the Union, and efforts 

were made to extend civil rights to 

formerly enslaved people.

• Reconstruction
• Reconciliation
• Restoration
• Reformation

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass