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| government subject to the will of the people |
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| withdrawal from the Union |
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| a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North |
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| transcontinental railroad |
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| a railway system extending across the continent |
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| the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature |
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| an act of rebelling against the established government |
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| nation declared to have been formed by the southern states that seceded from the Union on 1860-1861 |
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| the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency |
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