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Questionsuper support toward a region
Fugitive Someone who is wanted and is now on the run.
Secede Give up land
Abstain Decline an offer or treaty.
Popular Sovereignty Government ruled by people.
Border Ruffians Threatened people who opposed slavery.
Arsenal A collection of weapons
Secession Formal withdrawal of a region from a larger one (like a state from a country)
States rights Powers of every US state
Border States On the border of the Union and Confederacy.
Blockade Used by the Union to stop confederacy from trading
Offensive Actively attacking
Rebels People loyal to confederacy
Yankee Someone from the north (new england)
Blockade Runner Someone who escaped northern ships and delivered stuff to the confederacy.
Ironclad warships protected by iron or steel armor
Casualty A person killed or injured in a war
emancipation freeing someone
ratify approve a law officially
habeas Corpus used to stop people from getting arrested.
draft get people into the army
bounty money offered as a reward for doing something
greenback a currency made by the US government during the civil war
inflation lowering and raising money prices
entrenched when soldiers dug trenches to fight the war.
Total war War that was against not only military, but also against civil buildings and resources.
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