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TX - Civil War

Civil War/Reconstruction topics

TermDefinition
abolish to end or stop slavery
Abolitionist a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
blockade to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving (a port or country)
Civil War a war between groups of people in the same country
Confederacy states that separated themselves from the United States during the American Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation the official statement or announcement made by President Lincoln to free slaves in the rebelling southern states
Executive Order an order that comes from the U. S. President or a government agency and must be obeyed like a law
Export to send a product to be sold in another country
Import to bring a product into a country to be sold
Jim Crow Lasws laws passed that did not give black people the same rights as white people
nullify a legal decision to make something have no effect
Poll Tax a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election
port a town or city where ships stop to load and unload cargo
Reconstruction the process of putting something that was broken back into good condition such as the period from 1867 to 1877 when the southern states joined the northern states again after the American Civil War
revolt to fight in a violent way against the rule of a leader or government
secession the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent
sharecropper a farmer who pays the rent for his land with some of the crops he produces
Union the United States of America - the "union" of all the states
carpetbaggers a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction - an opportunist
scalawags a Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction - used as an insult
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