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civil war
chapter 15-16 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Sectionalism | loyalty to a region |
Fugitive | a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution (runaway slave) |
Secede | to leave or withdraw |
Abstain | to not take part in some, activity, such as voting |
Popular Sovereignty | political theory that government is subject to the will of 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 | were pro-slavery activists from slave states of Missouri, who crossed the state border into Kansas territory, to force the acceptance of slavery there. |
Arsenal | a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group |
Martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious beliefs |
secession | the withdrawl of eleven southern states from th union in 1860, leading to the civil war |
States rights | the rights and power held by individual US states rather than by the federal government |
Border state | any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War |
Blockade | an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving |
Offensive | an attacking military campaign |
Rebel | rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler |
Yankee | an inhabitant of New England or one of the northern states |
Blockade runner | a vessel that runs or attempts to run into or out of a blockade port |
Ironclad | a warship with armor plating |
Casualty | a person killed or injured in a war or accident |
Emancipate | free from slavery |
Ratify | sign or give formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement making it officially valid |
Habeas corpus | a court order requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court |
Draft | neccessary recruitment for a military service |
Bounty | a premium reward , especially one offered by the government |
Greenback | a dollar bill |
Inflation | a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money |
Entrenched | an (attitude, habit, or belief) firmly established and difficult or unlikley to change, ingrained |
Total war | a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war disregarded |