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Chapter 14 Civil War and Reconstruction
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border state, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, assassination, sharecropping, Reconstruction, scalawag, carpetbagger, segregation
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border state
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areas of the country that had a difficult time taking sides during the Civil War because they were in the middle of the North and the South
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Emancipation Proclamation
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an order to free all slaves in the South
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Gettysburg Address
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a short speech given to dedicate a cemetery for those who died there during a great battle of the Civil War
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assassination
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the murder of a political leader
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sharecropping
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a system in which land owners paid their workers in shares for farming their land
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Reconstruction
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a time of rebuilding and making plans to bring the country back together after the Civil War
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scalawag
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a person who supports something for their own gain
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carpetbagger
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Northerners who went to the South to try to help with the Reconstruciton or to make money buying land or opening businesses
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segregation
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a separation of black and white people
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