Unit 9 Vocab

9. the belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government
10. be on each or on one side of
11. a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group
13. a system of required service in the armed forces
15. the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, taken as the northern limit of the slave-owning states before the abolition of slavery.
16. Between roughly 1855 and 1859, Kansans engaged in a violent guerrilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces
17. a person who is killed because of their beliefs.
19. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
20. the art and science of achieving a political objective through the military instrument of national power

1. a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War
2. States of America the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy
3. enroll or be enrolled in the armed services.
4. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders
5. to formally withdraw from the Union
6. an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
7. sovereignty the idea that political authority belongs to the people
8. pull away/withdraw -the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
12. a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole
14. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
18. a war between citizens of the same country.