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

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.

Movement to end slavery.

Person, thing, or circumstance causing inconvenience or annoyance.

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.

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.

Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War.

A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War

In the civil war the states between the north and the south: Delaware, Mayland, Kentucky, and Missouri.

Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south.

Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.

New bullet created before the Civil War, led to a high number of casualties during the war.

16th President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated (freed) the slaves; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America (1861 to 1865).