Vocab Flashcards
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Emancipation
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To set free
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Ironclads
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Ships heavily armored with iron
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Total war
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Destroying civilian and economic resources
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Copperheads
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Mid westerners that sympathized with the south and opposed abolition
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Cotton diplomacy
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The idea that great Britain would support the confeds because it needed the south’s raw cotton to supply is booming textile industry
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Contrabands
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Escaped slaves who joined the union army after the civil war
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Habeas corpus
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A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
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Capitol of confederacy
Old and new
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Old..Montgomery
New..Richmond
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Border states
Name+define
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Delaware Maryland Missouri Kentucky Slave states that were not in the confederacy
