Unit 7 Vocabulary

abolish

• to end or stop

• to stop people from entering or leaving a port or country

• to withdraw

• a tax

Reconstruction

• when people put the interests of their region above the interests of the country as a whole

• the period from 1867 to 1877 when the Southern states rejoined the Northern states again after the Civil War

• a legal decision

• the United States of America

blockade

• a war between groups of people in the same country

• someone who wants to stop slavery

• to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving (a port or country)

• to leave

abolitionist

• a legal decision

• a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery

• a farmer who pays rent for his land with this crops

• the southern states

poll tax

• a war fought over money

• to withdraw

• money given to those people that vote

• a tax that each adult has to pay in order to vote in an election

Civil War

• a war between the U.S. and Mexico

• the United States of America

• a war between groups of people in the same country

• to withdraw

sharecropper

• a farmer who pays the rent for his land with some of the crop he produces

• states that separated themselves from the U.S.

• a person who wants to end slavery

• an individual involved in politics

nullify

• to withdraw

• a legal decision to make something have no effect (to cancel)

• to put a new law into place

• when people put the interests of their region over the interests of the entire country

secede

• a tax

• to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving a port

• to join another country

• to withdraw

Union

• the southern states that separated themselves from the U.S. during the Civil War

• a group of people involved in the legislative branch

• the United States of America

• joining a political group