| A | B |
|---|
| Blockade | Close off |
| Union | USA |
| Confederacy | CSA |
| Textile mill | A factory where cotton is made into cloth |
| civil war | a war between two groups in the same country |
| auctions | public sales |
| slave states | states where people could own slaves |
| free states | states where all states are free |
| federal | national |
| cotton gin | a machine that seperates cotton fibers frpm seeds |
| sharecropper | a person who rents land and pays owner with crops |
| secede | leave |
| Reconstruction | a time after the Civil War when people rebuilt towns |
