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Unit 8 Vocabulary
Civil War & Reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| plantation | a large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop |
| Union | the Northern states that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy |
| states' rights | the right of each U.S. state to makes its own local laws |
| Underground Railroad | a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom |
| abolitionist | a person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery |
| secession | the separation of a state from a nation |
| Confederacy | together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation |
| blockade | a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area |
| emancipation | the freeing of a group from slavery |
| Juneteenth | the celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War |
| total war | a method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender |
| assassinate | to murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons |
| Reconstruction | the period when laws were passed that sought to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States after the Civil War |
| amendment | a change or improvement |
| impeachment | the process of charging a high public official, such as the President, with a crime |
| segregation | the division of groups of people by race |
| black codes | a group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, own guns, or take certain jobs |
| sharecropping | a system in which someone who owns land lets someone else “rent” the land to farm it |
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