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Chapter 5 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | someone who opposes slavery |
| popular sovereignty | allowing people in a certain area to make their own decision regarding slavery |
| cotton gin | invented by Eli Whitney, separated seeds from the cotton, expanded slavery |
| free soilers | Americans opposed to the extension of slavery into new territories |
| contraband | blacks who fought in the Civil War |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South following the Civil War |
| scalawags | white southerners who supported the North during the Civil War and then voted Republican |
| tenant farmer | a farmer who rents land to farm |
| Anaconda Plan | the North's plan to wn the war, blockade Confederate ports, divide the South into three parts |
| reconstruction | rebuilding the South's economy, infrastructure and spirit following the Civil War |
| freedmen | freed slaves |
| Monitor | Northern ironclad |
| Merrimac | Southern ironclad |