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SS-4th grade Chap 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sharecropper | person who farms for a landowner for a landowner in return for part of the crops |
| secede | to withdraw formally from an organization |
| reconstruction | long period of rebuilding undergone by Southern states after the Civil War |
| Scalawag | Southerner who supported reconstruction |
| carpetbagger | usually a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported reconstruction |
| freedmen | people freed from slavery |
| Thirteenth Amendment | ratified in 1868; abolished slavery throughout the US |
| Blockade Runners | to stop the flow of goods from other countries from the South |
| tariff | tax on imports or exports |
| Union | another name for the US |
| Freedman's Bureau | organization that provided aid to African Americans and people |
| abolitionist | people who wanted to abolish or end slavery in the US |
| Emancipation Proclamation | official document signed and issued by President Abe Lincoln on January 1, 1863 which freed ensloaved people that were still at war with the Union |
| Confederacy | group of sovereign states called the Confederate states of America that was independent and had the power of the country from 1861 to 1865 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president, did not want slavery, elected president in 1860; problems threatened to destroy US; was shot and killed |
| William Lowndes Yancy | served in the legislator; wanted alabama to secede the US |
| Robert Jemison Jr. | thought Alabam should seced onlyif other states did |
| Jefferson Davis | thought Albama should secede only if other states |
| John Smith | He was an African American; he was enslaved but when freed fought |
| Josiah Gorgas | started factories in Alabama that produces armiments, military equipment |
| Robert E. Lee | general in the Confederate Army |
| H. L. Hunley | submarine to sink a ship |
| Emma Sanson | she helped Nathan Bedford Forrest and his troops reach Rome, Georgia before Union troops arrived |
| General Abel D. Streight | Union General led his troops across Alabama trying to destroy a railroad in Georgia |
| Andrew Johnson | became President after Lincoln was assissinated |
| John Rapier | took part in Alabama Constitutional Convention, where the new state constitution was written; he also became the first ... |
| Fort Sumterl, South Carolina | the confederate attacked here in Charleston Harbor which started the Civil War |
| Selma, Alabama | becam an important military supply center |
| Appomattox Court House, Virginia | Grant accepted Lee's surrender at this location and the war soon ended |
| Fort Morgan | built between 1819 and 1834; located in Mobile |
| Fort Gaines | located on Dauphin Island built between 1821 and 1861 |
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