Civil War 7th Grade SS

The movement to end slavery in the United States/A person who wanted slavery to be abolished (ended)

• Abolition/Abolitionists

• Sectionalism

• Secede

• Reconstruction

To break away or withdraw from a larger group you belong to (In the Civil War, the South, including Texas, seceded from the Union)

• Abolition/Abolitionists

• Sectionalism

• Secede

• Reconstruction

The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Abolition/Abolitionists

• Sectionalism

• Secede

• Reconstruction

Putting the interests of your own region ahead of the interests of your country. (Divisions over issues like slavery promoted sectionalism in the North and South.)

• Abolition/Abolitionists

• Sectionalism

• Secede

• Reconstruction

A person who worked the land in return for half the value of his or her crops

• Tariff

• Slavery

• Plantation

• Sharecropper

The practice of buying, selling and owning human beings.

• Tariff

• Slavery

• Plantation

• Sharecropper

A large farm used to grow cash crops for sale

• Tariff

• Slavery

• Plantation

• Sharecropper

A tax on imported goods. The South opposed increasing tariffs because they relied more on imported goods than the North did.

• Tariff

• Slavery

• Plantation

• Sharecropper

A crop grown for the purpose of being sold. Cotton was the biggest cash crop in Texas.

• Subsistence Farming

• Cash Crop

• Plantation

• Sharecropper

Growing enough food for you and your family to eat, but not enough to sell for a profit

• Subsistence Farming

• Cash Crop

• Plantation

• Sharecropper