CCSD - Social Studies Vocab 8th Grade
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- Culture
- lifestyle or way of life of a group or community of people; sometimes refers to the art, music, and literature of a particular society
- Political
- having to do with the government
- Natural Resources
- materials found in nature that people can use such as trees and water
- Alliances
- people or nations linked to one another as helpers
- Natural Environment
- the land and all the living things on the land
- Colony
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
- Regulators
- groups of Back Country settlers who protested royal policy
- Mercantilism
- the belief that the wealth of a nation depends on its supply of gold and silver
- Declaration
- clear statement
- Independence
- freedom from control or influence of another or others
- Constitution
- written plan of government
- Ratification
- process of approving the Constitution
- Convention
- a group of people gathered together for a common purpose
- Antebellum
- before the war
- Agriculture
- farming and raising livestock
- Secession
- process by which the Confederate states left the Union in 1860-1861
- Nullification
- theory of government in which the state has the power to reject a national law with which it disagrees
- Tariff
- tax on imported and exported goods
- Abolition
- doing away with completely
- States’ Rights
- idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them
- Cooperationists
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political leaders in South Carolina in the 1850s who favored secession
but only if the Southern states seceded together - Reconstruction
- period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the Southern states rejoined the Union
- Emancipation
- setting free
- Immigrants
- people who come into one country or place from another
- Carpetbaggers
- negative term used to describe Northerners who came South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Scalawags
- white Southerners who cooperated with and held office under the Republican government during Reconstruction
- Philanthropy
- doing good to others
- Corruption
- decay; lack of honesty; doing wrong
- Depression
- a prolonged and severe decline in the level of economic activity
- Temperance
- moderation in or total lack of drinking intoxicating beverages
- Suffrage
- right to vote
- Lynching
- execution of a person or number of persons outside the law by a mob
- Rural
- living in or characteristic of farming or country life
- Urban
- relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
- Migration
- the movement of people from one country or locality to another
- Progressive Reforms
- changes made to make the government more helpful to the people
- Emigration
- leaving one country or region to live in another
- Boll Weevil
- a tiny beetle that bored into the cotton boll that grew the fiber and ruined it
- Prohibition
- movement to make the manufacture and sale of liquor illegal in the United States
- Technical
- relating to mechanical subjects
- Scarcity
- very limited supply
- Mechanization
- use of machinery to replace human labor
- Discrimination
- unfair treatment of a group or individual
- Integration
- process of bringing together