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chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| secession | the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federal or body, especially a political state |
| Emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
| states rights | the principal that the rights of individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government |
| missouri compromise | an 1820 compromise that brought missouri into the union as a slave state and maine as a free state it established a demarcation line for slavery at latitude 36 |
| Wilmot Proviso | proposed legislation which was never passed that would prohibit slavery in any new territory acquired from the mexican war |
| compromise of 1850 | a multipart compromise whereby california joined the union as a free state utah and new mexico territories could decide on slavery by popular sovereignty and a fugitive slave act was passed |
| popular sovereignty | the ability of the people of an area to decide an issue such as weather to allow slavery for themselves |
| fugitive slave act | an act designed to ensure southern slaveholder that they could reclaim. slaves who escaped to free states |
| sectionalism | the thinking of northerners and southerners that their own part of the country was fundamentally different from the other based in large part on the issue of slaves |
| confederate states of american | the union formed in april 1861 of seven eventually 11 slave states that had secede from the united states beginning shortly after the election of lincoln |
| conscription act | an act first passed in the civil war to set up a draft (compulsory enlistment for military service) |
| blockade | the use of naval forces to isolate a sea port and prevent ships from entering or leaving it |
| confiscation act | an act in the civil war that allowed the union army to confiscate the property of those who continued to support the confederacy |
| profiteering | making an unfair profit an essential goods during emergency times |
| Aconda plan | a Union sheriffs in the Civil War to squeezing offenders into submission by controlling the Mississippi river and isolation forces west of the river the splitting the confederacy into two |
| siege | Are you tactic were an army try to cash or four or town by surround to get running supplies from reaching it |
| chicory | a bitter herb whose root was ground to serve as a replacement for coffee during the civil war |
| emancipation proclamation | a proclamation issued by president lincoln on january 1 |
| assassination | the murder of a prominent person, usually for political reason |
| Connect the key terms Confiscation Act, profiteering, and Anaconda Plan to the image below. Answer in 4-5 sentences. * | This picture is a picture of Benjamin F. Butler he was appart of the Confiscation act. He then started stealing perople spoons and he was profiteering off of that |