Unit 8 Vocab Flashcard

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States can limit federal power is defined as...

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States Rights

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Focus on regional interests over national ones is called?

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Sectionalism

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Secede is best defined as...

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to withdraw from something, such as a nation

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Tax on imported goods?

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Tariff

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A person who wanted to end slavery is an...

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Abolitionist

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Closing a port by positioning ships to prevent movement is a...

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Blockade

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Reconstruction is defined as

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the federal government’s plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.

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A nation at war with itself is...

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Civil War

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After the war, former slaves took jobs on cotton farms as...

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Sharecroppers

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Homefront is defined as

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Civilian life during a war