| A | B |
|---|
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Caucus | private meeting of political party leaders to choose a candidate |
| Secede | To withdraw from membership in a group |
| Annex | to add on |
| Vigilante | self-appointed law enforcer who deals out punishment without a trial. |
| Nativist | person who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the united States for native born white Protestants |
| Abolitionist | person who wanted to end slavery in the United States |
| Discrimination | policy or attitude that denies equal right |
| Emancipate | to set free |
| Undergorund Railroad | network of abolitionist who helped runaway slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada |
| Popular Sovereignty | idea that the people hold the final authority in government allowing each territory to decide whether to allow slavery |
| Trail of Tears | A sorrowful journey of the Cherokees Indians |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that the United States had the right and the duty to expand to the Pacific |
| Mormons | a large group of settlers who live in Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Cotton Kingdom | A wide band from South carolina through Alabama and Mississippi to texas |
| Slave codes | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights |
| Seneca Falls Convention | marked the beginning of an organized women's rights movement |
| Harriet Tubman | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Clipper ship | fast sailing ship of the mid-1800's |
| Tariff of Abominations | The highest tariff ever for the South. |
