| Term | Definition |
|---|
| suffrage | right to vote |
| political | power in the government |
| secession | to withdraw from a group |
| total war | all-out war with no rules |
| inflation | rise in prices and decrease in the value of money |
| sharecropping | one who farms the land owned by another in exchange for a share of crops |
| tariff | tax on foreign goods |
| literacy test | a test to see if a person can read and write used to restrict voting rights |
| abolition | the act where a person wants to end slavery in the U.S. |
| economic | money in the government |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country |
| copperheads | northerners who opposed using force to keep southern states in the union |
| profiteer | a person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money |
| segregation | separation of people bases on racial differences |
| assimilation | process of becoming part of another culture |
| states' rights | idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
| emancipation | to set free |
| social | relating to society in the government |
| border states | states that want slavery but want to stay in the union |
| draft | law requiring certain people to serve in the military |
| carpetbaggers | name for a northerner who came to the south after Civl War seeking personal gain |
| confederacy | alliance of independent states |
| due process | principle that government must follow the sam fair rules in all cases brought to trail |
| jim crow laws | laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south |
| popular sovereignty | allowing each territory to decide whether to allow slavery |
| radical | person who wants to make drastic changes in society |
| military districts | a district in the south run by the northern troops in an attempt to lower the violence rate |
| habeas corpus | right to have charges filed or a hearing before being jailed |
| scalawags | white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction |
| union | binding contract that cannot be broken by states |
| freedmen | men and women who have been slaves |
| poll tax | tax required before a person can vote |
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