People and Beliefs
This is a person who advocated for or supported the complete end of slavery in the United States, especially before the Civil War.
What is an abolitionist?
To formally give up control or ownership of something, especially territory, to another person or entity, often by treaty.
What is to cede?
This describes something that crosses a continent, such as a railroad line spanning the entire breadth of a country.
What is transcontinental?
To concentrate on a specific field or area of study, work, or trade; to become an expert in a particular skill.
What is to specialize?
Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
What is morality?
This term describes a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs, becoming an inspiring example for others.
What is a martyr?
To openly refuse to obey a rule, law, or person, or to resist something in a bold way.
What is to defy?
The process by which a person or group adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture, thereby integrating into a wider society.
What is to assimilate?
This word describes the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
What is antebellum?
To redivide or adjust the allocation of something, especially seats in a legislative body, based on population changes.
What is to reapportion?
This is a person with exceptional qualities or abilities, often intellectual, at an early age.
What is a prodigy?
This is a person who has fled from a state, jurisdiction, or intolerable circumstances, often to avoid prosecution or arrest.
What is a fugitive?
This term refers to the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
What is infrastructure?
Relating to the home, household, or family affairs; also, relating to one's own country.
What is domestic?
This word means to invalidate a law; to declare legally void and inoperative.
What is to nullify?
This word refers to a set of ideas or statements, often biased or misleading, used to help a particular cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
This is the act of a state or region formally withdrawing from a larger political entity, like the United States.
What is to secede?
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country, often prioritizing national interests above all others.
What is nationalism?
This means to set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions; to free from slavery.
What is to emancipate?
A type of cloth or woven fabric.
What is a textile?
This is the quality of being superior in power, status, or authority to all others.
What is supremacy?
This principle states that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
What is popular sovereignty?
This term describes loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This term refers to the ability to generate a profit or a useful benefit.
What is profitable?
A piece of legislation passed in 1850 that required U.S. citizens to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped, increasing tensions between North and South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?