CHAPTER 9 – Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary LIST

Word List
1.  Black Codes
2.  Carpetbaggers
3.  Confederacy
/ 4.  Reconstruction
5.  Underground Railroad
6.  Union
/ 7.  emancipation
8.  proclamation
9.  secession
/ 10.  segregation
11.  sharecropping
12.  siege

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1. / Black Codes(JIM CROW LAWS) a group of laws passed in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, own guns, or take certain jobs
*** / Right after the war, some Southern states passed Black Codes, or laws taking away right of African American men.
2. / Carpetbaggers(korpuhtbagurz) White Northerns who came to the South after the Civil War to help rebuild and who tried to make money off the misfortune of others.
3. / Confederacy(kuhnfEHduruhsee)noun together, the Southern states that seceded or LEFT the United States and formed their own nation.
*** / Eleven states seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy. (456)
The Confederacy wanted to break away from the United States and form their own country.
4. / Reconstruction(reekuhnstruhkshuhn)noun The period AFTER the Civil War when laws were passed that tried to rebuild and heal the northern and southern regions of the United States
*** / The reconstruction of the South after the Civil War took many years.
5. / Underground Railroad a system of SECRET escape routes for enslaved people, leading to free states
6. / Union(yoonyuhn)noun,adjective the states that make up the United States; used during the Civil War to refer to the government of the NORTHERN states
**** / Slavery became such a big issue during James Buchanan's term that South Carolina led six other Southern states to leave the Union in early 1861.
7. emancipation(ihmansuhpayshuhn)noun Freeing someone from the control of another; a slave or a parent's authority over a child.
*** / On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which promised freedom for slaves held in any of the Confederate states .
8. / proclamation(prokluhmayshuhn)noun A formal public announcement or statement.
*** / The proclamation stated that we would not be allowed to be in slavery, made by the President.
9. / secession(sihsEHshuhn)noun Separation of States from a Nation; The withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union in 1860 which started the American Civil War.
*** / The secession of the southern states divided the United States when they left the Union.
10. segregation(sEHgruhgayshuhn)noun separation of people and keeping people apart, based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
*** / Due to segregation, African Americans and whites could not go to the same school.
11. / sharecropping the practice of renting land for farming, with a share of the crop going to the landowner as a rental fee
*** / Sharecropping was a way of making a living from farming for many blacks in the South after the Civil War .
12. siege(seej)noun a military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender.
*** / The city was under siege for three weeks, the citizens bought extra food and supplies to prepare.