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Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |