Chapter 4 Soc. St.
Terms
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- carpetbaggers
- A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to try to help with Reconstruction or to make money buying land or opening a business
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The presidential order of 1863 that freed slaves in the Confederate States
- assassination
- The murder of a political leader such as a President
- homefront
- the places where civilians are active when their country is at war.
- segregation
- Separation
- reconstruction
- A time of rebuilding the country after the Civil War
- sharecropping
- A system of working the land, in which the worker was paid with a "share" of the crop
- civilians
- a person who is not in military
- scalawags
- A person who supports something for his or her own gain
- border states
- During the Civil War, a state between the North and the South that allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union
- Gettysburg Address
- A shor speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of a cemetary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania