| A | B |
|---|
| Union | The United States (North) |
| Popular sovereignty | deciding whether the state becomes a slave or free state based on votes cast by the people who live in that state |
| Repeal(ed) | to cancel |
| Sectional | issues relation to different sections, Sectional issues between the northern section of the country and the southern section |
| Tariff | a tax paid on an import (a good from another country) |
| Nullify (nullification) | to declare invalid, wrong therefor you don’t have to do it or follow it |
| Revenue | profit |
| Abolitionist | a person who is against slavery |
| Bondage | slavery |
| Reform | to change and improve |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Secede (succession) | to leave the country and form new country |
| Confederate | the southern states/people who left the union during the civil war |
| Contraband | a slave who escaped or was transported across Union lines. |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the southern states after the Civil war |
| Assassination | the murder of a prominent(important) person |
| Black codes | laws passed by Southern States after the civil with the goal of restricting African Americans’ freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. |
| Impeach | to formally charge a government official with doing something wrong. |
