Vocabulary

Sharecropping: ________ - a system in which someone who owns land lets someone else 'rent' the land to farm it.

• Sharecropping

• Tenant Farming

• Crop Rotation

• Subsistence Farming

Juneteenth: ________ - the celebration of the day when enslaved African Americans were freed during the Civil War.

• Juneteenth

• Independence Day

• Emancipation Day

• Freedom Day

Siege: ________ - a military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender.

• Siege

• Attack

• Defense

• Retreat

Impeachment: ________ - the process of charging a high public official, such as the President, with a crime.

• Impeachment

• Election

• Inauguration

• Legislation

Total war: ________ - a method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender.

• Total war

• Limited war

• Guerrilla warfare

• Trench warfare

Segregation: ________ - the division of groups of people by race.

• Segregation

• Integration

• Assimilation

• Desegregation

Secession: ________ - the separation of a state from a nation.

• Secession

• Annexation

• Integration

• Unification

Enlist: ________ - to join the military.

• Enlist

• Resign

• Withdraw

• Retreat

Emancipation: ________ - the freeing of a group from slavery.

• Emancipation

• Liberation

• Subjugation

• Oppression

States' rights: ________ - the right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws.

• the right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws.

• the right of the federal government to impose laws on states.

• the right of each state to secede from the union.

• the right of each state to veto federal laws.