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Chapter 8 Civil War
Term | Definition |
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Rural | an area with few homes or people |
Agricultural | Growing crops and raising animals |
Manufacturing | making good using natural, human and capital resources in factory settings, with many works |
Tariff | a tax placed on goods coming from another county, to make people choose locally- made items instead of foreign made ones. |
Urban | a city environment with many people and buildings |
Compromise | a middle way between two extremes |
Fugitive | someone who has escaped from a place or had gone into hiding |
Union | the act of being joined together, and a term used to refer to Northern States during the Civil War. |
Emancipation | setting someone free from power or control of another person |
Abolition | the movement to eliminate slavery |
Abolitionists | someone who wants to eliminate slavery |
Ballot | a written document used to vote |
Secede | to pull out or withdraw from |
Confederacy | southern states that seceded from the U.S in 1860-1861 |