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Ch 8 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Amendmant | A change to a government process or document. |
| Emancipation proclamation | an order issued by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It announced that the enslaved people in the rebelling Confederate states were free. |
| Abolitionist | Someone who wants to end slavery |
| Secede | To withdraw from an organization or country |
| Union | The United States of America often in reference to the northern states during the civil war |
| Confederacy | the eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War. Also called the Confederate States of America. |