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Civil War Vocabulary
Vocabulary Over Civil War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| States' Rights | The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
| secede | To withdraw from something, such as a nation |
| abolitionist | A person who wanted to end slavery |
| vigilante | People who take the law into their own hands |
| arsenal | Storehouses for weapons |
| blockade | The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| Blockade Runner | Ships that slip past a blockade to deliver goods |
| Unionist | People loyal to the Union during the American Civil War |
| Confederate | People loyal to the South during the American Civil War |
| conscription | The forced enrollment of people into the military service |
| Reconstruction | The federal government’s plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War |
| amendment | Formal changes to a document |
| sharecropper | A farm worker who works someone else’s land and pays for its use by giving the landowner a share of the crops grown. |
| sectionalism | Loyalty to a state or a section rather than the whole country |
| black codes | Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by the Southern governments |
| Juneteenth | June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of the Emancipation Day enslaved people in Texas |
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