Civil War Vocabulary

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A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.

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Abolitionist

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Gave all males the right to vote regardless of race

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15th Amendment

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Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America.

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Confederacy

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A system is which someone who owns land lets someone else "rent" the land to farm it.

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Sharecropping

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The division of groups of people, usually by race.

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Segregation

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Guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens; granted citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in the US.

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14th Amendment

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The right of each of United States to make it's own local laws.

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State's Rights

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The United States; also the Northern States, that remained part of the nation and fought against the confederacy in the Civil War.

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Union

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Before the Civil War, a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom in the North.

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Underground Railroad

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The separation of the state from a nation.

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Secession