7th Grade SS Unit 7 Vocabulary

secession

• to withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union
• Southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• Forcing people to work without pay or freedom
• Loyalty to your region instead of the whole country

sectionalism

• Loyalty to your region instead of the whole country
• Northern states that fought to keep the country united
• States' power to make their own laws and decisions
• Forcing people to work without pay or freedom

slavery

• Forcing people to work without pay or freedom
• blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out
• to agriculture, farming, and the countryside
• States' power to make their own laws and decisions

states’ rights

• States' power to make their own laws and decisions
• the act of giving someone freedom
• The process of making goods, usually in factories, using machines
• Taxes on imported or exported goods

tariffs

• Taxes on imported or exported goods
• the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories
• Money earned by a government or organization
• Southern states that seceded during the Civil War

Confederate States of America

• Southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• a tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop
• blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out
• Northern states that fought to keep the country united

Union

• Northern states that fought to keep the country united
• to withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union
• a tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop
• blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out

blockade

• blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out
• Loyalty to your region instead of the whole country
• Taxes on imported or exported goods
• the act of giving someone freedom

emancipation

• the act of giving someone freedom
• Forcing people to work without pay or freedom
• Southern states that seceded during the Civil War
• the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories

marshall law

• the imposition of laws by a military authority, generally in defeated territories
• States' power to make their own laws and decisions
• to withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union
• a tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop