a change or addition to a legal or statutory document
What is an amendment?
100
the period before the Civil War occurred
What is the antebellum?
100
declaring that a law is without force and is not binding
What is nullification?
100
the name the "south" claimed during the Civil War period
What is the Confederacy?
100
the period after the war
What is the post bellum?
200
the three amendments made to the Constitution during the Civil War period
What is the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendment?
200
the institution in which one is not independent under their own accord
What is slavery?
200
to file charges to remove a politician from office
What is to impeach someone?
200
to withdraw voluntarily from a Union
What is to secede?
300
the amendment is the Constituion that declared slaves free in the United States
What is the 13th amendment?
300
an agreement or settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side of the argument making concessions
What is a compromise?
300
the speech Abraham Lincoln gave that encouraged the North to win the Civil War in order to preserve and the democratic ideals on which it was founded
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
putting the interests of a particular section or region above those of the nation
What is sectionalism?
300
the period after the Civil War when the federal government took control of the former Confederate States in an attempt to change them before readmitting then to the union
What is Reconstruction?
400
the amendment to the Constitution that stated that the "freed slaves" were considered citizens of thw United States
What is the 14th amendment?
400
belief that American states that have certain rights under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that the national government cannot violate
What is States' Rights?
400
independent ; subject to no higher authority or government
What is sovereign?
400
the name the "north" states claimed during the Civil War period
What is the Union?
400
South Carolina
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
500
the amendment to the Constitution that gave ALL CITIZENS of the United States (now including black men) were able to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
500
the main argument of why the North fought in the Civil War
What is slavery?
500
the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people through their elected representatives
What is popular sovereignty?
500
THE UNION
What is the side of the divided US that won the Civil War?