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Chapter 9, Lesson 1
Struggles Over Slavery
Term | Definition |
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Plantation | A large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one kind of crop. |
Union | The United States; also the Northern States that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War. |
State's Rights | The right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws. |
Compromise | A situation when groups on each side of an issue each give in a little to reach an argument. |
Underground Railroad | Before the Civil War, a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom in the North. |
Abolitionist | A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery. |
Secession | The separation of a state from a nation. |
Confederacy | Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America. |