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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
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