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civ. war cards
flashcards for pre-civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | someone who wants to abolish slavery (abolish:to destroy or be rid of) |
| agrarian | a type of farming |
| auction | a public sale where property and/or merchandise is sold to the highest bidder |
| bayonet | a type knife |
| blockade | the isolating,closing off,or surrounding of a place by hostile ships or troops |
| carpetbagger | another name for the Northeners |
| compromise | when one side or region wants one thing and another side wants something different you meet halfway and do the option in the middle |
| emancipate | the free1ng of enslaved people |
| musket | a type of gun |
| plantation | a colony or settlement, the establishment of a colony or settlement |
| reconstruction | the period when the South rejoined the region |
| scaliwog | a native white southerner that collaborated with occupying forces during Reconstruction |
| seceded | to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, association, or political union |
| sharecropper | a tenant farmer who pays rent for a share for a crop |
| siege | a military blockade |
| textile | goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting, material suitable for weaving |
| Underground Railroad | a system for helping fugitive slaves escape to safe places |
| Union | the united states |