Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War.

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.

Enacted by Congress in 1793 and 1850, these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners.

Movement to end slavery.

Law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.

To preserve, honor, or celebrate the memory of.

Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.

Arrangement of events in time.

To deceive by elaborate trickery.

Hazy; vague; uncertain.

Person, thing, or circumstance causing inconvenience or annoyance.

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

Going beyond proper limits, shocking.

Divided into sharply opposed groups.

Sharply contrasted in character or purpose.

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.

Extending across a continent.

Causing to excite or inflame.

To ground or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome.

Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant.

Main character in a story.

An organism that feeds on a living host.

A large landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface.

Ethical theory of time-and-place ethics; that is, the belief that ethical truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them.

Suppression of the rights and liberties of a minority by the majority.

Reality as it is, apart from what we think or feel about it.