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Studystack civil war
| Q. | A. |
|---|---|
| What is sectionalism? | North developed as a trading region of small farmers North slowly emancipated. |
| What is Fugitive? | One who escapes or flees |
| What is Secede? | Popular sovereignty. |
| What is Abstain? | To hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy. |
| What is Popular sovereignty? | Popular sovereignty, or sovereignty of the peoples' rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people. |
| What is Border Ruffians? | In Kansas, Border Ruffians was the name applied to pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri. |
| What is Arsenal? | A collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group. |
| What is secession? | The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. |
| What is state's rights? | In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers. |
| What is Border state? | any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War. |
| What is a blockade? | A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally. |
| What is Offensive? | actively aggressive; attacking. |
| What is Rebel? | a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler. |
| What is Yankee? | a person who lives in, or is from, the US. |
| What is a Blockade runner? | A blockade runner is a merchant vessel used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait. |
| What is a Ironclad? | An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century. |
| What is a Casualty? | A casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture or desertion. |
| What is Emancipate? | Emancipation is any effort to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally, in discussion of such matters. |
| What is Ratify? | Ratification is a principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally. |
| What is Habeas corpus? | Habeas corpus is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention |
| What is a Draft? | compulsory recruitment for military service. |
| What is a Bounty? | a sum paid for killing or capturing a person or animal. |
| What is a Greenback? | Greenbacks were paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War. |
| What is a Inflation? | Inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. |
| What is Entrenched? | firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained. |
| What is a Total war? | Total war is warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war |
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