Unit 12 Vocabulary Review

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secession

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Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

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martyr

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a person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause

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states's rights

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Idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government

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Popular Sovereignty

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A government in which the people rule by their own consent.

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Confederacy

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the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

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sectionalism

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Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

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slavery

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A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.

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border state

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state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

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fugitive slave clause

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Allowed runaway slaves or free blacks in the North to be captured and returned to the South, part of the Compromise of 1850

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garrison

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soldiers stationed in a place to protect it