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An exaggerated loyalty to one's own area rather than to the country as a whole.
An exaggerated loyalty to one's own area rather than to the country as a whole.
The practice of denying people their rights or treating people unfairly because of prejudice.
Discrimination
A state that did not permit slavery.
Free State
A state that did permit slavery.
Slave State
The period before the Civil War, between 1820 and 1860.
Antebellum
Any political group or meeting organized to further a special interest or cause.
Caucus
A document that outlines the principles and policies that a political party supports.
Platform
The crime of trying to overthrow the government of one's state or country.
Treason
Money that is invested to build more wealth.
Capital
A financial condition that occurs when the money supply increases rapidly and there are not enough goods and services on which to spend it; this leads to rising prices
Inflation
A farmer who clears the land and plants a crop but who does not own the land.
Tenant Farmer
One who flees fighting or a war
Refugee
One who wanted to abolish or do away with slavery.
Abolitionist
The 1863 edict by which President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the Confederate states not occupied by U.S. troops
Emancipation Proclamation
The submarine used as a Confederate blockade runner
CSS Hunley
One honored for giving his or her life for a specific cause.
Martyr
The drafting of men for military service
Conscription
The idea prevalent in the antebellum period that the United States was destined to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Manifest Destiny
Those slave states that did not secede from the Union in the early 1860s
Border States
The right of the people living within an area to vote on a specific issue, such as slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
The North's economy depended on industry while the south's economy depended on agriculture through slave labor. This led to an increase of...
Sectionalism
Why was Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state by the Missouri Compromise?
To maintain a balance of power in Congress
Who became Andrew Jackson's Vice-President in 1828?
John C. Calhoun
The period before the Civil War, 1820-1860, was called the...
Antebellum Period
Who organized a slave revolt in Charleston in 1822?
Denmark Vesey