States Rights and Slavery in Civil War

Civil War

• between Northern and Southern states in the U.S.

• a conflict between European nations

• a war for independence from British rule

• a battle for civil rights in the 1960s

Compromise of 1850

• to ease tensions over slavery

• to promote westward expansion

• to establish a national bank

• to abolish the slave trade in Washington D.C.

Slavery

• where people are owned by others

• a system of voluntary labor

• a form of government

• a type of economic trade

Confederacy

• states during the Civil War

• a type of government

• a military strategy

• a political party

Missouri Compromise

• to keep balance between free and slave states

• to promote industrialization in the North

• to encourage westward expansion

• to establish a national bank

Abolitionists

• who wanted to end slavery

• who supported the continuation of slavery

• who were indifferent to the issue of slavery

• who fought for the rights of slave owners

Secession

• states leaving the Union

• a type of government

• a form of taxation

• a military strategy

States' Rights

• that states should make their own laws

• that the federal government should have all the power

• that states should follow federal laws strictly

• that states can ignore federal laws when they choose

Emancipation Proclamation

• to free slaves in Confederate states

• to grant women the right to vote

• to establish a national bank

• to end the Civil War

Union

• states during the Civil War

• territories in the West

• nations involved in World War I

• colonies in the American Revolution