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20 Cards in this Set
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a person who is running away from something
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fugitive
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to leave
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secede
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a state that allowed slavery before the Civil War
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slave state
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a state that did not allow slavery before the Civil War
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free state
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a set of ideas that determine how a person understands something
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frame of reference
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tax on goods brought into a country
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tariff
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idea that states, rather than the federal government, should have final authority over their own affairs
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states' rights
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a person who has been wounded or killed in a war
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casualty
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the freeing of enslaved people
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emancipation
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regional loyalty
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sectionalism
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a set of laws
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code
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the group of 11 states that left the Union, also called the Confederate States of America
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Confederacy
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to fall back
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retreat
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a formal speech
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address
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during the Civil War, a state between the North and the South that was unsure which side to support
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border state
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done in secret
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underground
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equal rights
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equality
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to act against
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resist
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a person who wanted to end slavery
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abolitionist
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a long range plan
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strategy
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