Vocabulary - Civil War and Reconstruction

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• Opposition between individuals or groups; stress

• Coming before the main event or activity

• To set free

• The act of setting something free

• An official public announcement

Tension

Preliminary

Emancipate

Emancipation

Proclamation

• Tension

• Preliminary

• Emancipate

• Emancipation

• Proclamation

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• A gradual reduction or weakening

• To give new energy or strength to

• The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

• To annoy or provoke to anger

• The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

Attrition

Reinvigorate

Abolition

Antagonize

Irony

• Attrition

• Reinvigorate

• Abolition

• Antagonize

• Irony

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• Keeping down or holding back

• Organization run by the army to care for and protect Black men, women and children after the Civil War

• A person who has to leave his or her country to find safety.

• To rebuild

• Disorderly, violent or riotous

Repressive

Freedmen's Bureau

Refugee

Reconstruct

Turbulent

• Repressive

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Refugee

• Reconstruct

• Turbulent

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• Promoting equal rights for all people

• A belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than individual problems

• The right to vote

• Fair or just

• To reach the highest point of development; to end

Egalitarian

Progressive

Suffrage

Equitable

Culminate

• Egalitarian

• Progressive

• Suffrage

• Equitable

• Culminate

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• Period when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises

• The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

• A gradual reduction or weakening

• To wipe out or to destroy

• The right to vote

Economic Depression

Irony

Attrition

Eradicate

Suffrage

• Economic Depression

• Irony

• Attrition

• Eradicate

• Suffrage