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Sarah G - Textbook Words 2
Textbook Words Ch 6-11
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11th Grade
04/11/2013

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elector
Definition
a person selected to vote for the President and Vice President
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impressment
Definition
forcing a person into public service, especially the navy
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embargo
Definition
a government order that stops trade with other countries
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nationalism
Definition
pride in your country
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doctrine
Definition
a set of beliefs
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industry
Definition
the making or producing of goods by business and factories
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textile
Definition
woven cloth
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interchangeable part
Definition
a part that can be used in place of another part in manufactured products
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mass production
Definition
a method of making large numbers of goods quickly and cheaply
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cotton gin
Definition
a machine, invented by Eli Whitney, that separates cotton from seeds
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overseer
Definition
a person who watches over and directs the work of others
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tariff
Definition
a tax on goods brought into a country
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spoils system
Definition
the system of giving government jobs to people who had helped to get the winner elected
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canal
Definition
a human-made waterway
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mountain man
Definition
a fur trapper and trader who lived in the mountains and new the wilderness
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forty-niner
Definition
a person who went to California in 1849 to find gold
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ranch
Definition
a large farm with grazing land for raising horses, cattle, or sheep
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rural
Definition
having to do with the country (not city)
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urban
Definition
having to do with the city
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immigrant
Definition
a person who comes to a country to live there
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famine
Definition
a time when people starve because there is not enough food
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equal rights
Definition
rights that all people in a society should have
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suffrage
Definition
the right to vote
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reformer
Definition
a person who works for a cause that improves the way something is done in a society
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temperance
Definition
a reform movement that is against drinking alcohol
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free state
Definition
a state that didn't allow slavery
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slave state
Definition
a state in which slavery was allowed
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sectionalism
Definition
loyalty to one region of a country instead of to the whole country
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fugitive
Definition
a person who runs away or escapes
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abolitionist
Definition
a person who wanted to end slavery
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Underground Railroad
Definition
a network of secret escape routes enslaved African Americans followed to reach freedom in the North
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popular sovereignty
Definition
a system that allowed people in a territory to make their own decisions
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extremist
Definition
a person whose opinions are very different from those of most people
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secede
Definition
to break away from, as a state leaving the Union
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civil war
Definition
a war between regions or groups of people in the same country
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border state
Definition
a slave state between the North and South that remained in the Union during the Civil War
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martial law
Definition
rule by an army instead of by elected officials
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casualty
Definition
a person killed, injured, or captured in war
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civilian
Definition
a person who is not a soldier
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conscription
Definition
drafting of people for military service
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discrimination
Definition
unjust treatment of a person based on false ideas about a particular group
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total war
Definition
the description of food, equipment, and anything else of use to soldiers and civilians
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assassinate
Definition
to murder a political leader like a President
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veteran
Definition
a person who has served in the armed forces
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Reconstruction
Definition
the time period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild the South
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black codes
Definition
a series of southern laws to limit the freedom of African Americans
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civil rights
Definition
rights belonging to all citizens
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impeach
Definition
to accuse a high public official (like the President of the United States) of a crime
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segregation
Definition
the separation of people by race
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carpetbagger
Definition
a name for a Northerner who sent to the South after the Civil War
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scalawag
Definition
a name for a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction government
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