Chapter 12 Key Terms

Question 0

Secede

Answer 0

To withdraw from something, such as a nation.

Question 1

States’ rights

Answer 1

The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government.

Question 2

Abolitionist

Answer 2

A person who wanted to end slavery.

Question 3

Vigilantes

Answer 3

People who take the law into their own hands.

Question 4

Arsenals

Answer 4

Storehouses for weapons.

Question 5

Blockade

Answer 5

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.

Question 6

Blockade runners

Answer 6

Ships that slip past a blockade to deliver goods.

Question 7

Unionists

Answer 7

People loyal to the union during the American civil war.

Question 8

Reconstruction

Answer 8

The federal government’s plan to restore the south to the union after the civil war.

Question 9

Amendment

Answer 9

A formal change to a document.

Question 10

Sharecropper

Answer 10

A farmworker who works someone else’s land and pays for it’s use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown.