Unit 12 Vocab Review

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secession

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withdrawing from an organization or nation to become independent

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popular sovereignty

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voting to decide on an issue as a state, this unit refers to voting on whether or not to be a free or slave state

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Confederacy

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southern states that seceded from the Union to form another nation

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states' rights

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individual states have rights that the federal government cannot violate

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sectionalism

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loyalty only to whichever section of a country that you live in

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slavery

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human beings take complete control of others

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border states

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states that bordered Union & Confederate states during Civil War

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fugitive slave clause

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article in Constitution that prevented free states from emancipation (freeing) slaves who had escaped from their owners in other states

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garrison

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a defense force of soldiers

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mobilize

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to organize and prepare troops for war