Chapter 12 -Civil War
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sectionalism | regional loyalty |
| tariff | a tax on goods brought into a country |
| states' rights | the idea that the states rather than the federal government should have the final authority over their own affairs |
| free state | a state that did not allow slavery before the Civil War |
| slave state | a state that allowed slavery before the Civil War |
| emancipation | the freeing of enslaved peoples |
| resist | to act against |
| code | a set of laws |
| fugitive | a person who is running away from something |
| underground | done in secret |
| abolitionist | a person who wanted to end slavery |
| equality | equal rights |
| secede | to leave |
| confederacy | the group of eleven states that left the union |
| retreat | to fall back |
| border state | during the Civil War a state such as Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, where unsure which side to take |
| strategy | a careful plan |
| casualty | a person who has been killed or wounded |
| address | a formal speech |
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