Causes of the US Civil War vocab

Rule by the people

• popular sovereignty

• limited government

• Secede

• Annex

To leave or withdraw from

• secede

• annex

• nullify

• tariff

loyalty to one part of the country

• sectionalism

• state's rights

• abolitionism

• draft

someone who wanted to end slavery

• abolitionist

• carpetbagger

• fugitive

• secessionist

proslavery groups of people from Missouri that went to battle antislavery forces in Kansas

• border ruffians

• secessionists

• fugitives

• carpetbaggers

a runaway slave

• fugitive

• abolitionist

• border ruffian

• martyr

a person who is willing to die for a cause

• martyr

• propagandist

• secessionist

• fugitive

the use of hit and run battle tactics

• guerilla warfare

• seige

• blockade

• flank

a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side giving up something

• compromise

• federalism

• treaty

• popular sovereignty

information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause

• propaganda

• sectionalism

• defamation

• abolish