Unit 8 Civil War & Reconstruction Vocabulary

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Federalism

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Political system in which power is shared between the national government and state governments

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Debt

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money owed

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Individual Rights

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Personal liberties and freedoms

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Popular Sovereignty

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Independent power given to the people

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Sharecropper

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A tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop

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Secede

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to leave or withdraw from the Union (United States)

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Reconstruction

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the act of rebuilding following the Civil War

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Emancipation

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the act of giving someone their freedom

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Sectionalism

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showing concern only for a region's needs & interest.

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Manifest Destiny

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The 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.