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12 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism |
focus on the interests of one's region |
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Sovereign |
free from outside control; self government |
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Secede |
to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to |
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Unionist |
a person who supported the Union cause during the Civil war |
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conscription |
the forced enrollment of people into military service |
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blockade |
using naval vessels to prevent shipment of food and supplies into or out of ports |
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home front |
the civilian world in war times |
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Reconstruction |
the effort, after the Civil Warn to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union |
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freedman |
a formerly enslaved person |
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black codes |
laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War |
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carpetbagger |
a Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government |
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scalawag |
a white southerner who supported Reconstruction |
