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