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15 Cards in this Set
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income
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Money a person receives in exchange for his or her labor or service.
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spiritual
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A religious song that is often based on a Bible story.
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industry
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All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
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states' rights
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The idea that individual states can decide for themselves about such things as slavery and taxes.
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abolitionist
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A person who worked to get the United States government to end, or abolish, slavery.
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Union
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The United States of America
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secede
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To leave the Union.
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Confederacy
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The Confederate3 States of America, a new country that was formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
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civil war
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A war between groups of people in the same country.
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blockade
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A barrier set up to keep ships from entering or leaving ports.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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A document that freed all slaves living in the Confederate States.
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Reconstruction
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The period after the Civil War when people had to reconstruct, or rebuild, their cities and farms.
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sharecropper
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A person who rents land, farms it, and pays the landowner with a share of the crops.
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amendment
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A change to the constitution.
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segregation
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The practice of keeping people in separate groups based on their race or culture.
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