Alabama History Ch 7 Vocabulary

Sectional differences; the belief by people of a certain region that their ideas and ways of life are better and more important than other regions

• urban

• rural

• surrender

• sectionalism

an area of cities and towns; more densely populated than rural areas or the suburbs

• inagurage

• rural

• urban

• fleet

areas where most people live on farms, not towns; the population is more spread out than in urban areas

• rural

• blockade

• urban

• unionist

to withdraw from something as some states did from the Union in the Civil War era

• secede

• cadet

• inaugurate

• unionist

to swear into office in a ceremony

• fleet

• inaugurate

• procession

• skirmish

a parade; a group moving forward in a ceremonial type of parade

• fleet

• procession

• urban

• secede

a person who wanted to stay in the United States and not secede

• blockade

• urban

• unionist

• skirmish

to give up or to "lay down arms" in war

• surrender

• urban

• fleet

• secede

the use of naval forces to stop shipping

• blockade

• fleet

• secede

• cadet

a brief fight as in a war

• cadet

• procession

• secede

• skirmish