SS EUS Unit 8 - Vocabulary

a tenant farmer who gives a portion of his or her crop

to the owner of the land as rent

• sharecropper

• carpetbagger

• freedmen

a Northerner who went to the South to seek private gain in the aftermath of the American Civil War who carried his belongings in a carpetbag

• sharecropper

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

dishonest person

• scalawag

• sharecropper

• carpetbagger

a person who is disloyal to his or her country,

his or her friends, or another group

• manager

• investor

• traitor

 the practice of separating people according to groups

• annexation

• segregation

• compromise

a nation with an economy no longer based on agriculture

• blockade

• republic

• industrial nation

turning raw materials into finished products

• industry

• investment

• compromise

a member of the armed forces whose duties do not include fighting

• warriors

• non-combatants

• cavalry

a nation in which those who make the laws and

run the government are elected by the people

• Republic

• state

• nation

a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory

• nomad

• blockade

• state