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Civil War
chapter 15 & 16 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to a region |
| Fugative | Runaway or trying to run away |
| Secede | To leave of withdraw |
| Abstain | To not take part in some activity, such as voting |
| Popular Sovereignty | Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people; before the Civil War, the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there |
| Border ruffians | Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas`s election during the mid-1850`s |
| Martyr | a person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause |
| Secession | withdrawal from the union |
| States rights | rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the constitution; the belief that states` rights supersede federal rights and law |
| Border state | slave states that did not secede from the Union. Four slave states never declared a secession: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. |
| Blockade | a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. |
| Offensive | a series of maneuvers and battles in East Tennessee and Kentucky in 1862 during the American Civil War. |
| Rebel | one who engages in armed resistance against the established government of one's country. a person who resists authority or convention |
| 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. |
| Blockade runner | a lighter-weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. |
| Ironclad | ironclad had replaced the unarmored ship of the line as the most powerful warship afloat. |
| Casualty | a casualty is a person in service killed in action, killed by disease, disabled by injuries, disabled by psychological trauma, captured, deserted, or missing, |
| Emancipate | set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions. |
| Ratify | To ratify a treaty or contract is to officially approve it by signing or voting for it. |
| Habeas corpus | a writ that is used to bring a party who has been criminally convicted in state court into federal court. |
| Draft | a legislation passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War to provide fresh manpower for the Union Army. |
| Bounty | Bounty jumpers were men who enlisted in the Union or Confederate army during the American Civil War only to collect a bounty and then leave |
| Greenback | paper currency (printed in green on the back) issued by the United States during the American Civil War. |
| Inflation | |
| Entrenched | to dig trenches for defensive purposes around |
| Total war | warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, and typically involves the use of weapons and tactics that result in significant civilian or other non-combatant casualties |
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