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Civil War Stack-S.S.
Civil War Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | Someone who joined the movement to abolish,or end slavery |
| Agrarian | Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership |
| Auction | The process of buying and selling goods by offering them up for bid. |
| Bayonet | A blade adapted to fit the muzzle end of a rifle and used in a close combat |
| Blockade | Isolation of a nation,city, area, or harbor by hostile ships or forces in order to prevent the entrance and exit |
| Carpetbagger | A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advice. |
| Compromise | A settlement in which both sides give up something they want. |
| Confedercy | The name chosen by the states that left the Unionat the time of the Civil War |
| Emancipate | The freeing of enslaved people |
| Musket | A muzzle loaded, smooth, bore, long gun fired from the shoulder |
| Plantation | A large farm on which crops are raised by workers who live there. |
| Reconstruction | The period when the South rejoined the Union. |
| Scalawag | A white Southerner working for or supporting the federal government during "Recontruction" |
| Secede | To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance |
| Textile | Cloth or fabric |
| Union | Another name for the United States back day |
| Sharecropper | Afican Americans gave the owner of the land a share of the crops the slaves raised |
| Seige | Surrounding and blockading of a city, town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it |
| Underground Railroad | A series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South |