Chapter 4 Civil War Vocabulary by https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9 en-us 2016-09-09 19:13:12 UTC 2026-03-17 16:40:50 UTC hello@padlet.com ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122868675 Secession: Was the act by which a state left the Union.]]> 2016-09-09 19:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122868675 Popular sovereignty: A system in which residents of that place vote to decide a problem. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122872349 2016-09-09 19:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122872349 Underground Railroad:A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122874248 2016-09-09 19:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122874248 Confederacy: Confederate States of America formed by the southern states after their secession from the Union. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122896979 2016-09-09 23:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122896979 Emancipation Proclamation: Freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.  ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122897166 2016-09-09 23:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122897166 Conscription: The drafting of citizens for military service. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122897274 2016-09-09 23:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122897274 Income Tax: A tax on earnings. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122897446 2016-09-09 23:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122897446 ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122899847 Freedmen's Bureau: A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War. ]]> 2016-09-10 01:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122899847 Reconstruction: The period of Rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union.  ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122899959 2016-09-10 01:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122899959 Gettysburg Address: A famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122900078 2016-09-10 01:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122900078 ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122900168 Thirteenth Amendment: An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. 

]]> 2016-09-10 01:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122900168 Radical Republicans: The Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican Party organized around an opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during Reconstruction. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122900686 2016-09-10 01:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122900686 Fourteenth Amendment: akes all persons born or naturalized in the United States - including former slaves - citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122970620 2016-09-11 17:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122970620 Fifteenth Amendment: rohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves.  ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122970890 2016-09-11 17:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122970890 Scalawag: A white southerner who joined the Republican party after the Civil War. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122971129 2016-09-11 17:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122971129 ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122971320 Carpetbagger: A Northerner who moved to the south after the Civil War.

]]> 2016-09-11 17:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122971320 Sharecropping: Give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise.  ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122971614 2016-09-11 17:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122971614 Ku Klux Klan (KKK): A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122972019 2016-09-11 17:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/d7tg8uazi3c9/wish/122972019