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Social Studies

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Abolitionist   Someone who joined the movement to end slavery  
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Agrarian   Farming or growing proudce  
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Auction   An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for something  
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Bayonet   is a spike-shaped weapon  
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Blockade   blockade is an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force  
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Carpetbagger   Another name for Yankees  
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Compromise   A settlement in which both sides give up something they want.  
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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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Emancipate   The free of the enslaved people  
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Musket   A type of gun  
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Plantation   A large farm on which crops are grown by the people who live there  
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Reconstruction   The period after the Civil War, when economy and social structures were rebuilt.  
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Scalawag   Scalawag was a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.  
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Secede   Is the act of withdrawing from the Union  
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Sharecropper   A system in which landowners let poor farmers use a small area of their land and in return got crops or produce  
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Siege   A siege is a military blockade of a city  
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Textile   Cloth or Fabric  
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Underground Railroad   A series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South.  
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Union   Another name for the US  
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south general   Robert E. Lee  
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north general   u.S.S. Lee Grant  
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Robert E. lees hoarse   Traveler  
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Abraham Lincoln   the president  
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The first shots of the civil war   April 12, 1861 in Charleston, SC  
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