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civil war vocab
Term | Definition |
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Border State | The physical demarcation between two different U.S. states |
Blockade | an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. |
Offensive | causing someone to feel deeply hurt, upset, or angry. |
Rebel | a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler. |
Yankee | an inhabitant of New England or one of the northern states. |
Blockade runner | a ship that manages to enter or leave a blockaded port. |
Ironclad | a 19th-century warship with armor plating. |
causality | the relationship between cause and effect. |
Emancipate | set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions. |
Ratify | sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid. |
Habeas corpus | a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention. |
Draft | compulsory recruitment for military service |
Bounty | a sum paid to encourage trade. |
Greenback | a dollar bill; a dollar. |
inflation | a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. |
Entrenched | of an attitude, habit, or belief, firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained. |
Total war | a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. |
Sectionalism | restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being. |
Fugitive | a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution. |
Secede | withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. |
Abstain | formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion. |
Popular Sovereignty | the authority of a government comes from the people, and the government is subject to their will. |
Border ruffians | pro-slavery Missourians who crossed the border into Kansas Territory during the mid-19th century to influence territorial elections and ensure the territory entered the US as a slave state |
Arsenal | a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group. |
Secession | the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. |
States rights | the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government. |