2nd quarter vocab

20 cards·by gymnast10101

Abolinist

a person who is against slavery

secede

to leave or withdraw from something

Expansion

To grow larger

Emancipate

to set free

Segragation

to set things apart from each other

Taxes

legally owed money to the government

Union

To come together (the northern states)

Confederacy

To form an alliance (the Southern States)

Fugitive

A person who has escaped from slavery and has gone into hiding

slavery

a legal owning of a person

Blockade

Preventing people from leaving or entering an area

Manufacturing

To make (something)

Agriculture

The practice of farming

Proclamation

A political announcement

Propaganda

Biased or misleading information for political purposes

Popular Sovereignty

Deciding if people should have slavery in there state or not

Compromise

An agreement to settle a dispute

Revolution

to overthrow someone

Manifest Destiny

The destiny where Americans believed they should expand into the west

Assassination

murdering someone for political purposes