the U.S.Civil War
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- Rebels
- name given by northerners to people of the south
- Copperheads
- 1860s Democrats who believed the war should end at any cost
- Confederate States
- southern slave-holding states that seceded from the Union
- armory
- place or building where arms and military equipment are stored
- martial law
- a form of emergency military rule
- siege
- the act of surrounding and attacking a fortified area over a period of time
- blockade
- something that prevents goods and peoplefrom oving into an area
- tariff
- tax on imported goods
- Yankees
- name southerners used for people of the north
- bounty
- payment to soldiers for entering the armed services
- habeus corpus
- legal priciple that guarantees people who are arrested the right to know what charges are being b rought against them
- debates
- pulic discussing where both sides of an issue are expressed
- sectionalism
- rivalry based on the special interest of different states
- strategy
- a plan; as in war
- greenback
- paper money issued by the government that was not backed by gold or silver
- border states
- the states along the line that divided the Union and Confederacy
- blockade runner
- a fast ship that broke through into a blocked port
- secede
- to withdraw from a political body
- Union States
- the name for the collection of northern free states
- ironclad
- ships with iron plates bolted to the sides
- Replublicans
- a national political party started in 1854
- states rights
- the belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority
- conscription
- the drafting of men for military service
- quota
- a fixed number limit