Social Studies 17 18 Vocabulary

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State between the border Between the north and South Delaware Maryland Kentucky and Missouri

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Border state

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To formally join a military force

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Enlist

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Stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river

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Tributary

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Hey warship equipped with iron plating for protection

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Ironclad

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A shoulder who is killed wounded Capri or missing in battle

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Casualtie

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Decree issued by president Lincoln freeing enslaved people in those parts of the confederacy still in rebellion on Jan 1,1863

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Emancipation proclamation

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A legal writ or order that guarantees a prisoner the right to be here’d in court

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Habeas corpus

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Relating to cultivating land

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Agrarian

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Person who manages industry

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Industrialist

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System selecting people for required military service

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Draft

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Reward or payment

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Bounty

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To place within a trench or ditch for defense to place in a strong defensive position

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Entrench

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the side or edge of a militaty formation

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Flank

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Refusal to give in

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Resistance

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Strategy of bringing war to the entire society not just military

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Total war

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The period of time of rebuilding the south and readmittmittimg southern states to the union

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Reconstruction

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The granting of a pardon to a larger number of persons

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Amnesty

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Laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling greed man and woman and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of afraican American workers

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Black codes

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To reject or defeat something that has already been decided

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Override

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To formally change a public official with misconduct in office

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Impeach

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Name given by former confederates to southern whites who supported republican reconstruction of the south

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Scalwag

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Dishonest or illegal actions

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Corruption

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To unite or to blend into a united whole

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Integrate

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System of farming in which a farmer works land for a owner who provides equipment and sees and receives a share of the crop

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Sharecropping

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A tax person must oh in order to vote

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Poll tax

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A method used to prevent blacks from voting by requirement prospective voters to read and write at a specified level

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Literacy test

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Device that allowed persons to vote in their fathers or grandfathers had voted before reconstruction began

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Grandfather clause

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The separation or isolation of a race class or group

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Segregation

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Putting to death by illegal action of a mob

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Lynching