Antebellum Period

3. A person who favored the immediate end of slavery.
5. The idea that states should have more power than the federal government, specifically regarding whether they could "nullify" (ignore) federal laws they didn't like.
7. A secret network of people, routes, and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states or Canada.
9. An extreme loyalty to a particular region of the country (the North, South, or West) rather than to the nation as a whole.
11. A way of reaching agreement in which each person or group gives up something that they wanted in order to end an argument. (Key examples: The Missouri Compromise of 1820).
13. The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods. (Mostly seen in the North).

1. The idea that the people living in a newly organized territory should be the ones to vote and decide whether or not to allow slavery there.
2. The act of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
4. Related to cultivated land or the cultivation of land; a society based on farming. (Mostly seen in the South).
6. The 19th-century belief that the United States was destined—by God—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
8. To make changes in something (typically a social, political, or economic institution) in order to improve it.
10. The right to vote in political elections. (The Antebellum period saw the start of the Women’s Suffrage movement at Seneca Falls).
12. Literally translating to "before the war" in Latin. In U.S. history, it refers to the period before the Civil War (1861).