Unit 7 Vocabulary

Concern for regional needs and interests

• sectionalism

• secede

• blockade

• emancipation

To withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union

• secede

• blockade

• emancipation

• reconstruction

Blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out

• blockade

• emancipation

• reconstruction

• martial law

the act of giving someone freedom

• emancipation

• reconstruction

• martial law

• sharecropper

the act of rebuilding, generally refers to the rebuilding of the Union following the Civil War

• reconstruction

• martial law

• sharecropper

• popular sovereignty

the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories

• martial law

• sharecropper

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

a tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop

• sharecropper

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

• secede

independent power given to the people

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

• secede

• blockade

income

• revenue

• secede

• individual rights

• republicanism

personal liberties and freedoms

• individual rights

• republicanism

• federalism

• sectionalism