Civil War Vocab
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| show | the intense loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
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| Fugitive | show 🗑
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| show | to formally withdraw or separate from a political union
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| show | to choose not to do or have something
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| show | a place where weapons and military equipment were stored or manufactured
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| show | the act of eleven Southern states withdrawing from the Union, primarily due to the issue of slavery and states' rights, and forming their own government, the Confederate States of America
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| show | slave-holding states that remained loyal to the Union despite their proximity to the Confederacy
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| show | slave-holding states that remained loyal to the Union despite their proximity to the Confederacy
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| show | a military strategy where one party, typically a nation, restricts the entry of goods or the exit of people and goods from a defined area, most often a port or coast controlled by an enemy
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| show | a military operation involving an aggressive push by armed forces to achieve a goal, like occupying territory, gaining an objective, or winning a battle.
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| show | primarily refers to the people, especially soldiers, fighting for the Confederate States of America
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| show | a soldier or civilian from the Union (northern) side of the conflict
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| Blockade runner | show 🗑
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| show | a warship with a wooden hull covered in iron or steel armor plates
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| show | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, capture, or through being missing in action
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| Emancipate | show 🗑
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| show | the process by which the U.S. Constitution was amended following the war, particularly the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
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| Habeas corpus | show 🗑
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| show | the conscription laws implemented by both the Union and Confederate governments to raise troops for the war effort
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| show | program of cash bonuses paid to entice enlistees into the army
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| show | the paper currency issued by the Union government to finance the war effort
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| show | a military position that is fortified by digging trenches or other earthworks for defense
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