vocabulary words,ust the definition from the class book

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Definition of blockade

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An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

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Definition of CONTRABAND

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An enslaved black person who either escaped or was transported across Union lines during the civil war; goods forbidden to be supplied to people who are engaged in a war.

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Definition of conscription

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Required enlistment for service, usually for the military

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Definition of inflation

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A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing power of money

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Definition of freedpeople

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Formerly enslaved people who have been emancipated

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Definition of Prejudice

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An opinion or judgement made before the facts are known not based on actual experience or reason.

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Definition of provisional

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Arranged for the present as a temporary measure

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Definition of racism

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The belief that race determines human traits and capacities, and racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race; unfair behavior directed at someone of a different race based on the belief that one's race is superior.

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Definition of compensate

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To give someone something in recognition of loss or suffering

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Write the definition of confiscate

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to take or seize with authority