Unit 8 Social Studies Vocabulary

give up something, generally refers to formally giving up land

• Civil War

• cession

• frontier

• secede

war between groups loving within a country

• nullify

• blockade

• Civil War

• Juneteenth

unsettled land that is located at the farthest part of settled country

• secede

• Blockade

• sharecropper

• frontier

to reject

• secede

• blockade

• sharecropper

• nullify

economic system characterized by freedom for consumers and producers

• frontier

• reconstruction

• sharecropper

• free enterprise system

How did the issue of States’ rights contribute to the division of north and south?

• The north thought that all stated should have to follow national laws

• The south thought they should be able to choose which national rules to follow

• Both a and b

• States’ rights did not cause division between the north and the south

when people have no rights of freedoms, they are bought, sold and owned by another person

• slavery

• nullify

• annexation

• sharecropper

the process of adding land to existing territory

• cession

• free enterprise system

• annexation

• Confederacy

the year time period after the Civil War in which the south was called during the Civil War

• frontier

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• Civil War

farmers that did not own their land but shared someone else's to grow their crops

• cession

• blockade

• Juneteenth

• sharecropper