Chapter 7 - A Growing Nation

An official position on an issue

• composition

• policy

• unconstitutional

• surge

An action or policy that goes against the Constitution of the United States.

• abolitionist

• interchangeable

• policy

• unconstitutional

To give up something to someone else.

• Ceded

• Loom

• Surge

• Composition

A machine for making thread or yarn into cloth.

• outpost

• ironclads

• colony

• loom

Something that can be used in place of something else because it is identical.

• negotiate

• interchangeable

• cede

• assembly

The way in which something is put together.

• composition

• policy

• claim

• negotiate

The belief that it was divine will for the United States to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

• dissension

• monarch

• unconstitutional

• Manifest Destiny

Sudden increase.

• profiteer

• recession

• surge

• cede

A person who believed slavery was wrong and should be ended.

• abolitionist

• fugitive

• rebel

• traitor

A person who flees or has escaped.

• casualty

• mercenary

• sharecropper

• fugitive