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| Free State | A state in which slavery was not allowed |
| Slave State | A state in which slavery was allowed. |
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to one region of a country instead of to the whole country. |
| Fugitive | A person who runs away or escapes. |
| Abolitionist | A person who wanted to end slavery |
| Underground Railroad | A network of secret escape routes enslaved African Americans followed to reach freedom in the North. |
| Popular Sovereignty | A system that allowed people in a territory to make their own decisions. |
| Secede | To break away from, as a state leaving the Union. |
| Civil War | A war between regions or groups of people in the same country. |
| 13th Amendment | Ended slavery in the United States |
| Freedman | A person freed from slavery |
| Reconstruction | The time period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild the South. |
| Black Codes | A series of southern laws to limit the freedom of African Americans |
| Civil Rights | Rights belonging to all citizens |
| Extremist | A person whose opinions are very different from those of most people. |
| Impeach | To accuse a high public official (like the President of the United States) of a crime |
| Segregation | The separation of people by race |
| Carpetbagger | A name for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War |
| Scalawag | A name for a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction government |
| Sharecropping | Farming someone else’s land while paying a share of the crops raised for rent. |
| Poll Tax | A tax paid before someone can vote |
| Prairie- Great Plains | A large area of level slightly rolling land |
| Homesteader | A person who received land under the Homestead Act of 1862. |
| Transcontinental | Across the continent |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the United States was a superior nation and it had the right to invade and conquer North America and beyond. |
| Reservation | Public land set aside by the government for the use of a particular group of people. (Native Americans) |
| Assimilation | When a person begins to take on the values and behaviors of another group. |
| Exploitation | The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. |
| Patent | A government grant that allows only the inventor to make, use, and sell an invention for a certain time |
| Corporation | A large company formed by a group of investors |
| Monopoly | The complete control of an industry by one company or person. |
| Company town | A community set up and run by a company for its workers |
| Labor Union | A group of workers that tries to help its members |
| Strike | To refuse to work until certain demands, such as higher wages or better working conditions, are met. |
| Boycott | A non-violent protest in which people refuse to buy products or use services |
| Imperialism | The political, military, or economic domination of one country over another |
| Yellow Journalism | The publishing of exaggerated or made-up news stories to attract readers and influence their ideas. |
| Alliance | A group of nations that promise to protect one another. |
| Arms Race | A contest to build weapons and military power |
| Stalemate | A situation in which neither side wins or loses…. A tie |
| Propaganda | The spreading of ideas, information, and beliefs to help or hurt a cause. |
| Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
