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Civil War Vocabulary

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Missouri Compromise An act of congress (1820) by which missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state. Slavery was prohibeted in The Louisiana Purchase
Compromise of 1850 A set of laws passed to settle dispute between those favoring slavory and those who opposed
Popular Sovereignty The Idea that people living within a certain state or territory.
Secede The act of withdrawing formally from a allience.
Confederacy A group of the 11 Southern states that succeeded from the union state.
Union The states in the north which were joined together after the south seceded
Anaconda Plan A plan proposed by Winfield Scott to defeat the confederacy by creating a blockade and splitting the confederacy in two.
Blockade The isolating, closing off or surrounding of a place, as a port harbor or city, by troops to prevent entance or exit.
Emencapation Proclomation The proclomation issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. That freed people held as slave in those territories.
Gettysburg Address The notable speech made by Abraham Lincoln at the dediction of natianol Cemetary in Gettysburg.
Abolitionist A person who is against slavery
Border State States which did not leave the union but supported confederacy
Fugitive state law A law passed that stated any slaves who escaped from their owners shall be returned
Infatrary Soldiers who fought and traveled on foot
Mason dixon Line A boundry that split the free states from the slave states
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