Social Studies
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| Emancipation | the freeing of enslaved people
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| Railhead | A town where rail head tracks begin or end
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| Homestead | A settler's home and land
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| draft | government selection of people to serve in the military
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| state's rights | the idea that states,not the government should make the final decisions about matters that effect the state
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| tarrif | a tax on imported items
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| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave woman who was called the Moses of her people she went back to the south 19 times to help slaves escape as a conductor of the under ground railroad.
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| sectional | loyalty to one part of the country
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| slave state | a state that allows slavery
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| free state | a state that doesn't allow slavery
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| Morse code | a cod e that sends messages easier and faster
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| transcontineal | railroad that crosses a continent
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| cow hand | led cattle to railroad where the cattle were shipped to eastern and northern hemispheres.
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| barbed wire | a twisted wire with a sharp barb point every few inches
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| telegraph | a machine that sends electric signals over wire telegraph lines
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| predjudice | a negative or unfair opinion
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| cattle drive | followed trails where water and grass were available
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| fugitive | someone who runs away without trying to get caught
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| abolitionist | someone who speaks up against slavery and tries to stop it
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to protest slavery and the fugitive slave law
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| John Brown | he got a group together and protested around an army base
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| Dred Scott | asked the supreme court to let him out of slavery legally
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| Confederacy | the name chosen by the states that left the union at the time of the civil war
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| Casualty | soldiers that were killed or wounded
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| Union | another name for the US
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| Secession | when a state decides to leave or remove their selves from something
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| Discrimination | the unfair treatment of a particular group
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| Civil War | a war between two groups or regions to achieve a goal
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| Fugitive Slave law | if you saw a runaway slave you have to return him/her to his/her master
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| William Lloyd Garrison | White abolitionist who wrote "The Liberator" an anti slavery newspaper
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| Fredrick Douglas | Escaped slave who went to the North and became an abolitionist speaker
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| Popular Sovreignty | the right of people the decide
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| Emancipation Proclmainmation | a declaration that declares that on the first January all slaves will be free
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| Boreder States | A state that has some slaves but is a union state; Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
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| Sojourner Truth | former slave woman who worked to end slavery and or women's rights.
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