Civil War Vocabulary

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Who were the emancipated African Americans that worked on land owned by a planter or landowner, paying rent with a portion of their crops?

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Tenant Farmers

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Becoming a bigger territory or economy

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Expansion

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What is the idea that the United States should expand and spread democracy and capitalism from sea to shining sea?

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Manifest Destiny

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What is it called when a region of the USA is more concerned with its own region over the goals of the whole country? For example, the issue of slavery in the Southern states.

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Sectionalism

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The act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent is called...

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secession

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Far from the actual front lines of fighting, this term refers to what is going on back home.

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Homefront

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Set of ideas and beliefs of a group or political party

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Ideology

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What is the term for a formal agreement between two or more countries?

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Treaty

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The Battle of Vicksburg (1863) was crucial to the Union's victory because:

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It gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two

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Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War?

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It forced the Confederacy to stay on the defensive for the remainder of the war and prevented further invasions of the North.