Leading up to the Civil War Vocab Quiz

The refusal to accept or comply with something

• Resistance

• Quitting

• Rejection

• Denial

the person who directed the daily work of the slaves was the overseer, usually a white man but occasionally an enslaved black man

• Overseer

• Manager

• Supervisor

• Taskmaster

To do away with completely, to end

• Discontinue

• Abolish

• Terminate

• Annul

an alliance of people or groups with the same goal

• A group of people working together

• Confederacy

• A plan of action

• Coalition

To free from control or the power of another

• Liberate

• Emancipate

• Unbind

• Release

required that slaves be returned to their slaveholders, even if they were in a free state. 

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Dred Scott Decision

the people who guided enslaved people along the Underground Railroad

• Pilots

• Navigators

• Conductors

• Guides

a place where weapons are stored

• Weapon Storage

• Arsenal

• Bunker

• Magazine

a violent uprising against an authority or government.

• Rebellion

• Insurrection

• Revolution

• Riot

a large area of land where crops such as cotton are grown

• Farm

• Plantation

• Orchard

• Garden