7 6 4 5 3 2 1 Name Vocabulary Preview Directions Match each vocabulary word to its meaning Write the vocabulary word on the line provided Not all words will be used You may use your glossary secede Confederacy sectionalism slave codes Underground Railroad free state slave state states rights Missouri Compromise Fugitive Slave Law Use with Chapter 14 Compromise of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act Union border state civil war to break away from state located between the Union and the Confederacy plan in which California entered the United States as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed states that remained loyal to the United States government state in which slavery was not allowed law which stated that escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners even if they had reached Northern states where slavery was not allowed law allowing the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they would allow slavery in their territory organized secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country laws to control the behavior of slaves government formed by the seven seceding states also known as the Confederate States of America state in which slavery was legally allowed Notes for Home Your child learned about problems between the North and the South and the Compromises they developed otivity Help your child learn the vocabulary terms by having him or her form comparisons