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