Unit 12 Vocabulary Quiz

a person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause (a)  

• martyr
• fugitive slave clause
• secession
• Confederacy
• garrison
• states' rights

to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization; to officially leave an organization (a)  

• secession
• fugitive slave clause
• Confederacy
• garrison
• martyr
• states' rights

soldiers stationed in a place to protect it (a)  

• garrison
• fugitive slave clause
• secession
• Confederacy
• martyr
• states' rights

Allowed runaway slaves or free blacks in the North to be captured and returned to the South, part of the Compromise of 1850 (a)  

• fugitive slave clause
• secession
• Confederacy
• garrison
• martyr
• states' rights

the idea that states should have all powers that the constitution does not give to the federal government (a)  

• states’ rights
• fugitive slave clause
• secession
• Confederacy
• garrison
• martyr

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 (a)  

• Confederacy
• fugitive slave clause
• secession
• garrison
• martyr
• states' rights

A government in which the people rule by their own consent. (a)  

• popular sovereignty
• sectionalism
• slavery
• border state
• mobilize
• enlist

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole (a)  

• sectionalism
• popular sovereignty
• slavery
• border state
• mobilize
• enlist

A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people. (a)  

• slavery
• popular sovereignty
• sectionalism
• border state
• mobilize
• enlist

state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri (a)  

• border state
• popular sovereignty
• sectionalism
• slavery
• mobilize
• enlist