The Gathering Storm

idea that states should have all powers that the Constitution does not give the Federal Government

• Nullification

• States' Rights

• Sovereignty

• Abolition

a place to store weapons and military equipment

• blockade

• gaol

• asylum

• arsenal

armed supporters of slavery who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas during the mid-1850s

• border ruffians

• Johnny Rebs

• suffragettes

• Whigs

to withdraw or break away from a nation or organization

• embargo

• confederation

• secede

• annex

person who is running away from legal authority

• abolitionist

• fugitive

• expansionist

• suffragette

statement of belief for a political party

• platform

• podium

• theory

• claim

states that had slaves but did not leave the Union in the Civil War

• Confederacy

• Anti-Union

• Union

• Border States

a rail line that extends from coast to coast

• transcontinental railroad

• intercontinental railroad

• interstates

• Pony Express

when voters in a territory were given the right to decide whether or not to have slavery

• martial law

• collective bargaining

• compromise

• popular sovereignty

putting an end to slavery

• abolition

• banishment

• expulson

• emancipation