Vocabulary

=**Vocabulary Page** = = =

Popular Sovereignty -
===American History. (before the Civil War) a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that the people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy, especially with respect to slavery. ===

Secede -
===to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc. ===

Fugitive -
===a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime. ===

Act -
===a formal decision, law, or the like, by a legislature, ruler, court, or other authority; decree or edict; statute; judgment, resolve, or award: an act of Congress. ===

Prohibit -
===to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here. ===

Confederacy -
===a group of persons, parties, states, etc., united by such a confederacy. ===

Yankee -
===a native or inhabitant of a northern U.S. state, especially of one of the northeastern states that sided with the Union in the American civil war. ===