| A | B |
|---|
| urban | related to the city |
| rural | related to the countryside, farms |
| suburban | related to the area around a city |
| agriculture | farming |
| manufacturing | making things (in a factory) |
| service industry | waiters, travel agents, secretary, doorman |
| professions | teacher, doctor, dentist, lawyer |
| secede | to separate from a larger group |
| antebellum | before the war |
| emancipation | setting free |
| abolition | getting rid of something |
| states' rights | the idea that states can decide which parts of the Constitution to follow |
| Union | the Northern half of the US |
| Confederacy | the Southern part of the US |
| Yankee | northerner |
| Rebel | southerner |
| plantation | a very large farm with slaves |
| cotton gin | the machine that takes seeds wout of cotton |
| popular government | when ordinary people get to vote on ijmportant issues |
| Fort Sumter | site of the first battle of the Civil War |
| textile | cloth |
| casualty | a death or injury in war |
| General | the person in charge of thousands of soldiers |
| assassinate | to kill a political leader |
