Vocabulary
sectionalism - loyalty to a region
fugitive - runaway or trying to run away secede - to leave or withdraw abstain - to not take part in some activity, such as voting popular sovereignty - political theory that government is subject to the will of the people; before Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there border ruffians - Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election during the mid-1850s |
civil war - conflict between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
arsenal - a storage place for weapons and ammunition martyr - a person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause secession - withdrawal from the Union states' rights - rights and powers independent of the federal governmet that are reserved for the states by the Constitution; the belief that states' rights supersede federal rights and law |