Chapter 10 - Vocabulary Test Flashcards
1
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Withdrawal from the union
A
Secession
2
Q
System that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
A
Underground Railroad
3
Q
Railway system extending across the continent
A
Transcontinental Railroad
4
Q
The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature
A
Referendum
5
Q
An act of rebellion against the established government
A
Insurrection
6
Q
Nation declared to have been formed by the southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-1861
A
Confederacy
7
Q
The law administered by the military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency
A
Martial Law
8
Q
The idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there
A
Popular sovereignty
