Chapter 4 Social Studies vocab

1. The practice of setting one group apart from another by law.
5. A large farm where cash crops were grown.
7. of independence- 1775 The Continental Congress declared the colonies should be free of English rule, which was then written by Thomas Jefferson.
11. states that remained in the United States after the Confederacy formed.
13. railroad-A group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom along secret routes before and during the Civil War.
15. Proclamation- The announcement by president Lincoln in 1863 that all enslaved people living in Confederate states were free.
16. The government policy of strict and unequal segregation of races as practiced in South Africa from 1948 to the early1990’s.
17. Ending completely; often used in reference to slavery.

1. system of writing in which each syllable of a word is represented by a symbol.
2. Rights- The rights of people to be treated equally under the law.
3. A place that is ruled by a distant country.
4. The government formed by 11 Southern states that seceded from from the United States,1860-1865.
6. segregated area where blacks in South Africa were forced to live under apartheid.
8. The act of joining with other people in refusing to buy or use a company's products or services.
9. A group of people who meet to talk and make decisions.
10. of Burgesses- An elected group of citizens who made laws for the Virginia colony beginning in 1619.
12. of Tears- The forced movement of cherokee and some other Native Americans to what is now Oklahoma in 1838.
14. War- The war in the United States between the Union states of the north and the confederate states of the south, 1861-1865.