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Civil War 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | someone who tried to end slavery or abolish it |
| agrarian | referring to farming or agriculture |
| auction | an organized sale where products are sold to the highest bidder |
| bayonet | a long knife on the end of a gun |
| blockade | an effort to block food and supplies to an area by force |
| carpet bagger | northerners who traveled south during time of reconstruction to help or just to make money |
| compromise | a settlement in which both sides give up something they want |
| confederacy | the name chosen by states that left the union during the time of the civil war |
| emancipate | the freeing of enslaved people |
| musket | an old gun that can only be fired once before having to reload |
| plantation | a large farm on which crops are raised by workers who live on the farm |
| reconstruction | the period of when the south rejoined the union |
| scalawag | a slang word for old useless horse, a southerner who helped the renconstruction |
| secede | when one part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest |
| sharecropper | a system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land and in return the farmers give the land owner a share of the crop |
| siege | a military blockade on a city or fort compel its surrender |
| textile | cloth or fabric |
| underground railroad | a series of routes and hiding places to help slaves get out of the south |
| union | another name for the united states |
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