Unit 8 Week 18 - Vocabulary

people who worked to bring an end to slavery

concern for regional needs and interests

• sectionalism

• suffrage

• secession

• segregation

A state where the practice of slavery was illegal

• sectionalism

• reservation

• free state

• segregation

the separation of people based on race, religion, or ethnicity

• sectionalism

• suffrage

• secession

• segregation

Laws passed to restrict the rights of freed African Americans

Powers given to the states as interpreted in the U.S. Constitution

• Black Codes

• Civil War

• States' Rights

• Reservations

Land set aside for American Indian tribes to live on

• Black Codes

• Civil War

• States' Rights

• Reservations

The withdrawal of a state from a union

The right to vote

• Black Codes

• Suffrage

• States' Rights

• Reservations

a conflict between groups or regions within a country