Tennessee Academic Vocabulary 5th Grade S.S.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tariff | a government tax on imports or exports |
| abolitionists | people who believed that slavery should be against the law |
| aviation | the operation of aircraft to provide transportation |
| annex | to add territory to another region |
| boycott | refusal to buy or sell certain products or services |
| bias | influence in an unfair way |
| border states | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. |
| boundary | invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory |
| Civil War | War between the Union and Confederacy from 1861-1865 |
| civil rights | the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law |
| Confederate States of America | the name adopted by the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War |
| debt | the state of owing something (especially money) |
| credit | An arrangement to receive cash, goods, or services now and pay for them in the future. |
| federal | having to do with the national government |
| Great Depression | the severe economic decline that began in 1929 and lasted for more than a decade |
| historian | a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it |
| human rights | the basic rights to which all people are entitled as stated in the Constitution |
| integration | the bringing together of different races |
| immigrant | a person who comes into a country to live there |
| industrialization | the development of industries for the machine production of goods |
| labor union | an organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members |
| migration | a movement from one country or region to another |
| oral history | a story of the past that is spoken rather than written |
| region | an area with common features that set it apart from other areas |
| settlement house | Community center organized in the late 1800s to offer services to the poor |
| secondary source | information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event |
| Union | The Northern States during the Civil War |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country |
| urbanization | the growth of cities |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the south after the Civil War |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| segregation | separation of the races |
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