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Social Studies 1233
civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Person who was against slavery and wanted to abolish it | Abolitionist |
| Related to farmers or their way of life | Agrarian |
| A sale of property to the hightest bidder | Auction |
| A steel blade attached at the muzzle end of a gun and used in hand-to-hand combat | Bayonet |
| The isolation by a warring nation of an enemy area by troops or warships to prevent passage of people or supplies | Blockade |
| A Northerner in the South after the Civil War seeking private gain during the Reconstruction era | Carpetbagger |
| An agreement between two groups where each group gives up something they really wanted in exchange for something that is acceptable to both groups. | Compromise |
| An alliance of the 11 Southern States that seceded from the U.S. during the Civil War | Confederacy |
| To free from bondage | Emanicpate |
| A type gun used by soldiers during the Civil War | Musket |
| A large farming estate that used slave workers | Plantation |
| The period after the Civil War when the southern states were brought back into the union. | Reconstruction |
| A white Southerner seeking private gain after the Civil War by working with the Reconstruction government. | Scalawag |
| To withdraw from a political state | Secede |
| A freed slave who continued to work on a plantation after slavery ended in exchange for a share of the crops | Sharecropper |
| A persistent attack | Siege |
| A fiber or yarn used in making cloth | Textile |
| A system that helped slaves escape into free states or Canada | Underground Railroad |
| The group of Northern States who remained after the Confederate States seceded from the U.S. during the Civil War | Union |