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Ch 8 Northern Lights
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an order issued by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It announced that enslaved people in the Confederate states were free. |
| amendment | a change to a government process or document |