Texas During the Civil War and Reconstruction Vocab

What does WITHDRAW mean?

• to draw a picture with a pencil

• to stay

• to remove, take away or leave

• to watch TV

What does READMISSION mean?

• to leave a country

• being admitted to a place or organization AGAIN

• immigration

• to find a new place to live

What does ALLIANCE mean?

• to leave a country

• to sit quietly

• to form a bond or connection

• to find a new place to live

To withdraw from a nation or state to be independent

• abolish

• secede

• emancipation

An economic system in which people are free to buy and sell goods and services with little control by the government

• Civil War

• abolitionist

• free enterprise

• Reconstruction

War between citizens of the same country

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• abolitionist

• free enterprise

An alliance formed for a common purpose

• Civil War

• Confederacy

• Blockade

• Sharecropper

Process of rebuilding the Union with the readmission of southern states

• Blockade

• Civil War

• Abolitionist

• Reconstruction

What were sharecroppers?

• Farmers who shared their crops with people who were less fortunate.
• Farmers who payed part of what they grew to the landowner.
• Land that people could farm on 
• Crops that people farmed during the Reconstruction Era

A person who wants to end slavery

• abolitionist

• blockade

• secede

• sharecropper