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South Carolina was the first state to __________, or leave, the Union.
a) Fugile
b) Abolition
c) Discriminate
d) Secede

When parts of the same country fight against one another, it is called what?
a) War World
b) Civil War
c) State's War
d) U.S. State War

Many slaves escaped from the southern plantations by way of the ________________ ______________.
a) Underground Railroad
b) Slave Train
c) Tubman's Railroad
d) Runaway Secret Train

To break away from a group as the Southern states broke away from the United States in 1861
a) Discrimination
b) Sectionalism
c) Abolitionist
d) Secede

Confederate States of America formed by the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union
a) Union
b) Confederacy
c) Sectionalism
d) Abolitionist

Another word for United States
a) Union
b) Confederacy
c) Sectionalism
d) Popular Sovereignty

Government gets its power from the people, its citizens
a) Secession
b) State's Rights
c) Popular Sovereignty
d) Confederacy

A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to get from the South to the North of Canada
a) Underground Railroad
b) The Slave Escape Train
c) Tubman's Railroad
d) Fugitive Train

A person who wants to abolish or end slavery
a) Tariff
b) Sectionalism
c) State's Rights
d) Abolitionist

A special tax on imported goods
a) Tariff
b) Sectionalism
c) Abolitionist
d) State's Rights

An idea that a state should have the right to make a decisions about issues that concern them without the federal government interfering
a) Tariff
b) Sectionalism
c) State's Rights
d) Abolitionist

People who treat a group of people unfairly because of their race, culture, religion, or gender are participating in _________________________.
a) Abolition
b) Discrimination
c) Sectionalism
d) Tariff

The idea that government gets its power from the people, its citizens, is called _____________.
a) People's Rights
b) Civil Rights
c) Citizen's Rights
d) State's Rights

This type of people would have attended an anti-slavery rally to try to make slavery illegal.
a) abolionists
b) fugitives
c) confederates
d) traitors

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