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US History Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | The thought of your part of the country has the more important problems. |
| Fugitive | A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution. |
| Secede | Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. |
| Abstain | Formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion. |
| Popular Sovereignty | Is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. |
| Border ruffians | People who wanted slavery and FORCED other states to accept slavery and have slaves of their own. |
| Arsenal | A place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made. |
| States rights | The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. |
| Secession | The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War. |
| Border state | any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War. |
| Blockade | an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally. |
| Offensive | an attacking military campaign |
| Rebel | a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler. |
| Yankee | a person who lives in, or is from, the US. |
| Blockade runner | a vessel that runs or attempts to run into or out of a blockaded port. |
| Ironclad | a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century. |
| Casualty | a person killed or injured in a war or accident. |
| Emancipate | set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions |
| Ratify | sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid. |
| Habeas corpus | a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention. |
| Draft | A system for selecting young men for compulsory military service, administered in the United States by the Selective Service System. |
| Bounty | A reward for catching a fugitive |
| Greenback | a dollar bill; a dollar. |
| Inflation | a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. |
| Entrenched | (of an attitude, habit, or belief) firmly established and difficult or unlikely 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 are disregarded. |
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