Road to The Civil War

5. A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.
8. Name given to a person from a seceded state.
11. a person who actively and passionately worked to end the institution of slavery in the United States.
12. the Confederate States of America, a government formed by Southern states during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Confederacy was established in response to secessionist sentiments and the desire to preserve the institution of slavery.
14. slang term given to a Northern person.

1. the Northern and western states that remained loyal to the federal government during the Civil War.
2. The border states were Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland. They were states that allowed slavery but never joined the Confederacy.
3. A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
4. pro-slavery activists from the slave-holding state of Missouri who crossed the border into the Kansas Territory during the mid-19th century.
6. the act of formally withdrawing or breaking away from a larger political or social entity, such as a country or union.
7. strong loyalty or allegiance that people in a specific region or section of a country feel toward their own region.
9. a military strategy used by one side to prevent the movement of goods, supplies, and reinforcements to the other side.
10. refers to a period of violent conflict that took place in the Kansas Territory during the mid-1850s. It was a result of the intense debate over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or a slave state.
11. the period before the Civil War.
13. Strategy by the north to keep south from transporting goods; including taking over the Mississippi River.