Chapter 12 Key Terms

Question 0

To withdraw from something, such as a nation

Answer 0

Secede

Question 1

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

Answer 1

States’ rights

Question 2

A person who wanted to end slavery

Answer 2

Abolitionist

Question 3

People who take the law into their own hands

Answer 3

Vigilantes

Question 4

Storehouse for weapons

Answer 4

Arsenals

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Blockade

Question 6

Ships that slip past a blockade to deliver goods

Answer 6

Blockade runners

Question 7

People loyal to the union during the American civil war

Answer 7

Unionist

Question 8

The federal governments plan to restore the south to the union after the civil war

Answer 8

Reconstruction

Question 9

Formal changes to a document

Answer 9

Amendment

Question 10

A farm worker who works someone else’s land and pays for its use by giving the landowners a share of the crops grown

Answer 10

Sharecropper