1. 5 th Grade Civil War Study Guide Created by: Mrs. Thornburg’s Found online at Fulton Schools

2. Fugitive

3. A person that runs away from the law.

4. What is a tariff?

5. Tariff is a tax charged by a government on imported goods. (Goods brought into a country)

6. What is discrimination?

7. Discrimination is a treatment of people based on a class or category rather than individual merit.

8. Underground Railroad

9. This was a secret system that helped runaway slaves escape to Canada or the free states.

10. Abolitionists

11. These people printed antislavery newspapers and spoke against slavery to try and end slavery.

12. Free States

13. A state that did not have slavery.

14. Slave States

15. A state in which slavery is allowed.

16. Popular Sovereignty

17. Authority carried out by the people at large. When the people of a state or territory get to make decisions for themselves and the FEDERAL government does not.

18. Union

19. Another name for the United States.

20. 2015-2016 Additional Slides Created by: Mrs. Righter

21. Cash Crop Source: www.pentaxforums.com

22. An agricultural crop grown to sale for a profit.

23. Slavery

24. The owning of people by other people; bondage.

25. Economics

26. The study of how goods and services are produced and distributed.

27. Sectionalism

28. An intense, sometimes excessive, regard for local interests or concerns. Northern vs.Southern interestsinterests

29. Antebellum

30. In or of the period prior to a war, esp. the American Civil War.

31. States’ rights

32. States’ Rights I n the United States, all rights and powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor denied by it to the states.

33. Immigration

34. The act of coming to live in a new country.

35. Urban

36. of or having to do with a city or town.