vocabulary words civil war

Question 1

Free Soilers

Answer 1

Northerners who opposed slavery in the territories

Question 2

Skirmish

Answer 2

A minor battle in War

Question 3

Annexed

Answer 3

Join or attach

Question 4

Manifest Destiny

Answer 4

obvious or underniable fate

Question 5

Lone Star Republic

Answer 5

The Republic of Texas

Question 6

Antebellum

Answer 6

A term meaning “before war”

Question 7

North Star

Answer 7

Newspaper created by Frederick Douglass that showed the truth behind slavery

Question 8

American Spirit

Answer 8

The American Spirit kept the country together and that spirit personified by Andrew Jackson

Question 9

Sectionalism

Answer 9

A strong loyalty to a particular region of the country

Question 10

Yankee

Answer 10

nickname for people from the north

Question 11

Spoil System

Answer 11

Andrew Jackson began to give jobs to people who were in his democratic part

Question 12

Trail of tears

Answer 12

Forced Indians off their land and moved the population west

Question 13

New Outlook

Answer 13

Revolutionary ideas changing the view in New England

Question 14

Abolitionist

Answer 14

A person who wanted to eliminate slavery

Question 15

Fertile lands

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Land or soil that is fertile to support the growth of a large number of plants (cotton)

Question 16

The Alamo

Answer 16

mission in San Antonio, Texas that was used as a fort during the Texas revolution

Question 17

Fugitive Slave law

Answer 17

under the law, runaway slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury

Question 18

Militia

Answer 18

An army of citizens used during emergencies

Question 19

Confederacy

Answer 19

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Question 20

Compromise of 1850

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package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War

Question 21

Slavery

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Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else

Question 22

Missouri Compromise

Answer 22

A series of agreements passed by Congress to maintain balance of power between slave and free slave states

Question 23

secede

Answer 23

to leave or withdraw

Question 24

Casualties

Answer 24

people that are wounded or killed

Question 25

Civil war

Answer 25

War between the North and the South