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SS-4th grade Chap 6

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Sharecropper   person who farms for a landowner for a landowner in return for part of the crops  
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secede   to withdraw formally from an organization  
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reconstruction   long period of rebuilding undergone by Southern states after the Civil War  
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Scalawag   Southerner who supported reconstruction  
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carpetbagger   usually a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported reconstruction  
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freedmen   people freed from slavery  
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Thirteenth Amendment   ratified in 1868; abolished slavery throughout the US  
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Blockade Runners   to stop the flow of goods from other countries from the South  
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tariff   tax on imports or exports  
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Union   another name for the US  
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Freedman's Bureau   organization that provided aid to African Americans and people  
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abolitionist   people who wanted to abolish or end slavery in the US  
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Emancipation Proclamation   official document signed and issued by President Abe Lincoln on January 1, 1863 which freed ensloaved people that were still at war with the Union  
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Confederacy   group of sovereign states called the Confederate states of America that was independent and had the power of the country from 1861 to 1865  
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Abraham Lincoln   16th president, did not want slavery, elected president in 1860; problems threatened to destroy US; was shot and killed  
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William Lowndes Yancy   served in the legislator; wanted alabama to secede the US  
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Robert Jemison Jr.   thought Alabam should seced onlyif other states did  
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Jefferson Davis   thought Albama should secede only if other states  
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John Smith   He was an African American; he was enslaved but when freed fought  
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Josiah Gorgas   started factories in Alabama that produces armiments, military equipment  
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Robert E. Lee   general in the Confederate Army  
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H. L. Hunley   submarine to sink a ship  
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Emma Sanson   she helped Nathan Bedford Forrest and his troops reach Rome, Georgia before Union troops arrived  
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General Abel D. Streight   Union General led his troops across Alabama trying to destroy a railroad in Georgia  
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Andrew Johnson   became President after Lincoln was assissinated  
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John Rapier   took part in Alabama Constitutional Convention, where the new state constitution was written; he also became the first ...  
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Fort Sumterl, South Carolina   the confederate attacked here in Charleston Harbor which started the Civil War  
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Selma, Alabama   becam an important military supply center  
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Appomattox Court House, Virginia   Grant accepted Lee's surrender at this location and the war soon ended  
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Fort Morgan   built between 1819 and 1834; located in Mobile  
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Fort Gaines   located on Dauphin Island built between 1821 and 1861  
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