civil war vocab
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| Border State | The physical demarcation between two different U.S. states
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| Blockade | an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
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| Offensive | causing someone to feel deeply hurt, upset, or angry.
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| Rebel | a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
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| Yankee | an inhabitant of New England or one of the northern states.
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| Blockade runner | a ship that manages to enter or leave a blockaded port.
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| Ironclad | a 19th-century warship with armor plating.
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| causality | the relationship between cause and effect.
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| Emancipate | set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions.
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| Ratify | sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.
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| 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.
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| Draft | compulsory recruitment for military service
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| Bounty | a sum paid to encourage trade.
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| Greenback | a dollar bill; a dollar.
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| inflation | a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
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| Entrenched | of an attitude, habit, or belief, firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained.
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| 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.
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| Sectionalism | restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
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| Fugitive | a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
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| Secede | withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
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| Abstain | formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion.
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| Popular Sovereignty | the authority of a government comes from the people, and the government is subject to their will.
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| 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
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| Arsenal | a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group.
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| Secession | the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
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| States rights | the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
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