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1. Tariff- a government tax on imports or exports
2. Abolitionists - people who believed that slavery should be
against the law
3. Aviation - the operation of aircraft to provide
transportation
4. Annex - take (territory) by conquest
5. Boycott - refusal to buy or sell certain products or
services
6. Bias - A preference that prevents one from being impartial;
prejudice.
7. Border states - States bordering the North: Delaware,
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri.They were slave states, but did not
secede.
8. Boundary - invisible line that marks the extent of a state's
territory
9. Civil War - The period of warfare between the Confederate
States of America (1861-1865)and the United States over the issues
of states' rights and slavery.
10. Civil Rights - the constitutional rights due all
citizens
11. Confederate States of America - the name adopted by the 11
Southern states that secededfrom the Union during the Civil War
12. Debt - money or goods or services owed by one person to
another
13. Credit - An arrangement to receive cash, goods, or services
now and pay for them in thefuture.
14. Federal - national
15. Great Depression - The economic crisis and period of low
business activity in the U.S. andother countries, roughly beginning
with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and
continuing through most of the 1930s.
16. Historian - scholars who study and write about the
historical past
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17. Human Rights - the basic rights to which all people are
entitled as human beings
18. Integration - the action of incorporating a racial or
religious group into a community
19. Immigrant - a person who comes to a country where they were
not born in order to settlethere
20. Industrialization - the development of industries for the
machine production of goods
21. Labor Union - an organization of employees formed to bargain
with the employer
22. Migration - the movement of persons from one country or
locality to another
23. Oral history - accounts of the past that people pass down by
word of mouth
24. Region - an area with common features that set it apart from
other areas
25. Settlement House - community center organized in the late
1800s to offer services to thepoor
26. Secondary source - Text and/or artifacts that are not
original, but written from somethingoriginal (biographies, magazine
articles, research papers).
27. Union - the United States (especially the northern states
during the American Civil War)
28. Urbanization - the social process whereby cities grow and
societies become more urban
29. Sectionalism - loyalty to one's own region of the country,
rather than to the nation as a whole
30. Reconstruction - the period after the Civil War in the
United States when the southern stateswere reorganized and
reintegrated into the Union
31. Suffrage - the right to vote
32. Segregation- the separation or isolation of a race, class,
or group
