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25 Cards in this Set
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the Union |
The U.S., especially during the Civil War. Usually means "the whole US," in other words, not letting it split apart. |
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ruffian |
A thug; a bad person. |
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paramount |
Of highest importance. |
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despot |
An absolute ruler; a dictator; somebody who has complete control over other people and abuses it. |
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enduring |
Continuing or long-lasting. Something that went on for a long time or is still going on. |
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The Constitution |
x |
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The Emancipation Proclamation |
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The Civil War |
x |
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Abraham Lincoln |
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Reconstruction Era |
1863-1867 in the Southern US. The time after the Civil War, when the South rebuilt the damage from the war and adjusted their society to working without slavery. |
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plantation |
Especially in the south US, a mansion and the farmland surrounding it. Plantations often produced cotton and were usually worked by slaves. |
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The Revolutionary War |
The war of Independence (1775) |
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13 Colonies |
English colonies, founded along the Atlantic coast of America. |
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"No Taxation without Representation!" |
The people weren't allowing to get taxed without someone representing them and explaining what the tax money is being used for. |
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Representatives |
Chosen people to speak or act for others. |
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Benjamin Franklin |
President who is know as one of the Founding Founders who drafted the Declaration of Independence. |
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Declaration of Independence |
The declaration of Benjamin Franklin that we were no longer part of them. (1776) |
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appropriate (verb) |
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impoverished |
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Stamp Act |
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boycott |
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British Parliament |
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Patriot |
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Redcoat |
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The Founding Fathers |
The people who made America what it is today and wrote the Declaration of Independence and Constitution (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Etc.) |
