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CivilWar: a war between people of the same country
Confederacy: all of the Southern states the seceded from the Union
CottonGin: a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from cotton seeds.
Discrimination: unfair treatment of a group or individual
EmancipationProclamation: document that freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states.
IndustrialRevolution: period of important change from making goods by hand to making goods by machine in factories.
MassProduction: production of goods on a large scale.
Abolitionists: people who did not agree with slavery.
Secession: to break away
Sectionalism: having thoughts or concerns of a particular region or section of the country
StatesRights: powers reserved for the state governments rather than the federal.
Union: states that remained loyal to the United States.
Manufacture: to make goods from raw materials.
AndrewJohnson: The Vice President who became president after Lincoln's death.
JohnWilkesBooth: the man who killed Lincoln when he was watching a play at Ford's Theater.
AbeLincoln: The 16th president who was killed while watching a play at Ford's Theater.
Reconstruction: The rebuilding or healing of United States after the Civil War.
Sharecropper: Poor Southerners rent land and pay the landowner with a share of crops.
Fourteenthamendment: it gave African American citizenship.
Fifteenthamendment: it gave all men the right to vote.
Civil War Reconstruction
a war between people of the same country
all of the Southern states the seceded from the Union
a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from cotton seeds.
unfair treatment of a group or individual
document that freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states.
period of important change from making goods by hand to making goods by machine in factories.
production of goods on a large scale.
people who did not agree with slavery.
to break away
having thoughts or concerns of a particular region or section of the country
powers reserved for the state governments rather than the federal.
states that remained loyal to the United States.
to make goods from raw materials.
The Vice President who became president after Lincoln's death.
the man who killed Lincoln when he was watching a play at Ford's Theater.
The 16th president who was killed while watching a play at Ford's Theater.
The rebuilding or healing of United States after the Civil War.
Poor Southerners rent land and pay the landowner with a share of crops.