| A | B |
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| Fall Line | imaginary line that runs from Richmond to Halifax County through the places on rivers where falls become prominent |
| emancipate | to set free |
| Northwest Passage | an all-water route to Asia explorer thought existed through the North American continent |
| sit-in | a type of demonstration where people enter a public facilityand refuse to leave |
| abolitionism | the movement to do away with slavery |
| duty | a tax on goods brought in from another country |
| fundamentalists | members of religious groups who believe that the Bible is the source of all religious authority and who believe Genesis creation story as written |
| middleman | a trader who buys goods from producers and sells those goods to other traders or to consumers |
| segregation | seperation of the race |
| pacifist | one who does not believe in war and will not bear arms |
| plank road | a road made by laying down large pine planks and covering them with sand |
| yeoman | a small farmer |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) | an organization that worked to stop the sale of alcoholic beverages |
| taxes | the money given by businesses and citizens to the government to pay for services the government provides |
| unicameral | one house, as a legislature |
| inlets | places where the oceans flows through the Outer Banks towards the mainland |
| grandfather clause | a clause added to the 1899suffrage amendment that allowed a man to register to vote without taken a literacy test if he, his father, or his grandfather had vote before 1967 |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret, racist organization that tried to restore political and social control to native whites through violence and intimidation |
| livestocks | horses, mules, oxen, cattle, sheep, and hogs |
| culture | the way of life |
| freedmen | freed men |
