4th Grade Chapter 7 VOcabulary

LESSON 1 plantation a large farm that produces crops to sell abolitionist people who wanted to end slavery nullify to cancel secede to officially leave or separate from a group cavalry a group of soldiers who fight battles on horseback blockade an effort to stop ships from going in or out of a port tariff a tax paid on goods that come from another country LESSON 23 Reconstruction the time or rebuilding and change in the South after the Civil War Juneteenth the day the slaves in Texas learned that they were free sharecropper a farmer who pays part of what he or she grows to a landowner Segregation racial separation; keeping African Americans separate from white people fort a strongly constructed building used to house soldiers and weapons Buffalo Soldiers African American soldiers who fought against the Plains Indians Indian Territory land that was set aside for American Indians To mark a word click its first letter then click its last. SHARECROPPER SEGREGATION JUNETEENTH PLANTATION BLOCKADE CAVALRY NULLIFY TARIFF FORT