Unit Vocabulary

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  1. 4. farming, System in which a person rents land to farm from a planter
  2. 8. state, State where slavery was legal
  3. 12. Reconstruction, Period after the Civil War when the South was occupied by federal troops
  4. 13. sovereignty, Principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people
  5. 17. Period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild and readmit Southern states into the Union
  6. 19. Nothing Party, Political party that opposed immigration and Catholic influence in the United States
  7. 25. Person who supervises and directs the work of others, especially on a plantation
  8. 26. System of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
  9. 27. To bring formal charges against a public official
  10. 28. Brief, unplanned fight between small groups of soldiers
  11. 30. of 1850, Series of laws intended to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories
  12. 32. Place where weapons and military equipment are stored
  13. 33. Compromise, Agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while also prohibiting slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36°30' parallel
  14. 35. Unfair treatment of a person or group based on race, religion, or other characteristics
  15. 38. Proclamation, Presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free
  16. 41. rights, Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
  17. 42. To declare invalid
  18. 46. Plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
  19. 47. Slave Act, Law that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners
  20. 50. Former slaves who had been emancipated
  21. 51. Right to vote in political elections
  22. 55. Type of warship heavily armored with iron
  23. 56. Codes, Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict the rights of African Americans
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  1. 1. Act, Legislation that allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery
  2. 2. Excessive concern for the interests of a particular region over those of the country as a whole
  3. 3. Law or regulation
  4. 5. Plan, Union's strategy to defeat the Confederacy by surrounding it and cutting off its resources
  5. 6. Farmer, Person who owns and cultivates a small farm
  6. 7. Movement to end slavery in the United States
  7. 9. States of America, Government formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union
  8. 10. Bureau, Federal agency established to aid freedmen in the aftermath of the Civil War
  9. 11. soiler, Person who opposed the extension of slavery into new territories
  10. 14. Amendment, Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  11. 15. Reconstruction, Period after the Civil War when Congress was in control of Reconstruction
  12. 16. Railroad, Network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada
  13. 18. Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, especially for political or financial gain
  14. 20. State, State that did not allow slavery
  15. 21. Drafting of individuals into military service
  16. 22. Period before the Civil War
  17. 23. Amendment, Abolished slavery in the United States
  18. 24. Fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime
  19. 29. code, Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights
  20. 31. Southern white who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War
  21. 34. Act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity
  22. 36. Use of naval forces to prevent movement and trade in and out of ports
  23. 37. wagon, Wagon that follows an army to sell provisions to the soldiers
  24. 39. To add a territory to one's own territory
  25. 40. Klux Klan, Secret society in the Southern United States that focused on white supremacy and terrorized African Americans
  26. 43. Cotton diplomacy, South's strategy during the Civil War to use its cotton as a bargaining tool with European nations
  27. 44. Amendment, Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves
  28. 45. Person who was in charge of a group of slaves on a plantation
  29. 48. destiny, Belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent
  30. 49. Act, Legislation that allowed for the partition of the Cherokee Nation to make room for the state of Georgia
  31. 52. Party, Political party founded in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery
  32. 53. running, Practice of sneaking goods past a blockade
  33. 54. Declared policy of a political party or group