A | B |
To trade goods and services for other goods and services | barter |
Currency, coins, and checks | money |
A group of colonists who wrote letters to keep other colonies informed about what the British were doing | Committees of Correspondence |
Any state that did not allow slavery | free state |
A person who worked for 4 to 7 years to pay for their passage | Indentured Servant |
A system of buying something now and paying for it later. | credit |
Refusing to buy a product as a protest | Boycott |
Any state that allowed slavery | Slave state |
Ending the practice of slavery | abolition |
A piece of land bordered by water on 3 sides | Peninsula |
A written grant of rights or other privileges | Charter |
A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the grower. | cash crop |
Money put away to save or to spend at a later time | savings |
A person who supported the colonists in the Revolutionary War. | Patriot |
A colonist who remained faithful to Britain during the American Revolution | Loyalist |
To move from one country or region and settle in another. | Migrate |
Using ships or soldiers to stop supplies or people from entering a place. | Blockade |
The abolishment of racial segregation. | Desegregation |
Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities. | intergration |
Money that is owed | Debt |
The action of a state to remove itself from the United States to form a new country. | secession |
The time after the Civil War when the south was being rebuilt. | reconstruction |
A government agency formed after the Civil War to help freed slaves. | Freedman's Bureau |
A tenant farmer who farms land for the owner and is paid a share of the crop. | sharecropping |
Laws that discriminated against African-Americans | Jim Crow Laws |
Keeping African-Americans from having the same rights as other people. | discrimination |
A tax designed to keep African-Americans from voting | Poll Tax |
A reading test designed to keep African-Americans from voting | Literacy test |
The resistance of many Virginians to give African-Americans their civil rights. | Massive Resistance |
The idea that the races should be separated, but have equal opportunities. | "Separate but Equal" |
Occupying a place and refusing to move as a form of protest. | sit-in |
The right to vote | Suffrage |
The natural border between the tidewater and Piedmont regions | Fall Line |
Area of elevated land tha is flat on top. | Plateau |