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Civil War Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| annexation | the process of adding land to an existing territory |
| cession | give up something, generally refers to formally giving up land |
| frontier | unsettled land that is located at the farthest part of a settled country |
| free enterprise system | economic system characterized by freedom for consumers and producers |
| slavery | when people have no rights or freedoms, they are bought, sold and owned by another person |
| Civil war | war between groups living within a country |
| nullify | to reject |
| Reconstruction | the 10 year time period after the Civil War in which the south came to terms with the end of slavery and the nation tried to rebuild |
| Confederacy | an alliance formed for a common purpose; also what the south was called during the Civil War |
| secede | to withdraw from a nation or state to be independent |
| blockade | when ships are blocked from entering or leaving a port |
| sharecropper | farmers that did not own their land but shared someone else’s to grow their crops |
| Juneteenth | the celebration of the day that the last of the slaves in Texas found out the war was over and they were free |
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