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TCCS 2016 Week 25 Social Studies
TCCS 2016 Week 25 Social Studies
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Social Studies
6th Grade
03/20/2017

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free state
Definition
a state that did not allow slavery
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slave state
Definition
a state that did allow slavery
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confederacy
Definition
the confederate states of america, a new country that was formed by the southern states that seceded from the union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860
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border state
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during the civil war a state between North and South that allow slavery but did not secede from the union
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emancipation proclamation
Definition
the presidential order of 1863 that freed enslaved people in the confederate state
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gettysburg address
Definition
a short speech given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of a cemetery at Gettysburg
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Assassination
Definition
the murder of a political such as a president
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sharecropping
Definition
a system of working the land,in which the worker was paid with a share of the crop
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reconstruction
Definition
a time of rebuilding a country after the civil war
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scalawag
Definition
a person who supported something for his or her gain
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