SHMS 8th Grade Social Studies Vocab 2
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| States' rights | the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government; the main cause of the Civil War
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| Nullification | the act of cancelling something, specifically the belief that states could cancel a law they disagreed with
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| Compromise | the settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions
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| Georgia platform | a statement executed by Georgia politicians in response to the Compromise of 1850; accepted the Compromise and kept Georgia from seceding
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| Secession | the formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
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| Blockade | an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
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| Reconstruction | a thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed
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| Freedman's Bureau | an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
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| Sharecropping | a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent; gives a higher portion than a tenant farmer since they are given more supplies, etc.
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| Tenant farming | a person who farms rented land; gives a smaller portion of each crop than a sharecropper since they bring more of their own supplies
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| Triumvirate | a group of three men holding power
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| Populists | a political party that advocated for the interests of ordinary people, the free coinage of silver, a graduated income tax, and government control of monopolies
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| Disenfranchisement | being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote
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| Anti-Semitism | hostility toward or prejudice against Jews
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| Great Depression | the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years
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| New Deal | a group of government programs and policies that were designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression
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| Lend-Lease Act | the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II
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