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History Vocab 15/16
Question | Answer |
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Popular sovereignty | Idea that political power belongs to the people |
Secede | Formally withdraw from the Union |
Confederate States of America | Also called Confederacy |
Implications | Things that are inferred or deduced |
Complex | Difficult, not simple |
Border States | Slave states that didn't join the Confederacy |
Cotton Diplomacy | The idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry |
Ironclads | Ships heavily armored with iron |
Emancipation | Freeing of slaves |
Contrabands | Escaped slaves who joined the Union Army in SC |
Copperheads | Midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition |
Habeas Corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
Total War | Destroying civilian and economic resources |
Innovation | New idea or way of doing something |
Execute | To perform, carry out |