Unit 4: At a Crossroads Vocabulary

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formerly enslaved people who have been emancipated

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Freedpeople

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An African American who left the South to settle in Kansas or another western state

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Exoduster

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a type of tenant farming in which the tenant receives a share of the crop from the landowner as payment for labor

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Sharecropping

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a farming arrangement in which a farmer rents a plot of land and a house from a land owner

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Tenant farming

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a form of credit repaid with crops rather than money

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Crop Lien

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the rights of individuals to political, social, and economic equality

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Civil Rights

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the enforced separation of the races

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Segregation

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an organized group of workers formed to negotiate with employers for wages, work hours, benefits, and safer working conditions

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Labor Union

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the practice of organizing in order to negotiate contracts and determine fair pay, benefits, hours, and safety policies

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Collective bargaining

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to put a person on a list with people viewed with suspicion or disapproval

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Blacklist