5th Grade Civil War Study Guide

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5th Grade Civil War Study Guide

• Created by Mrs. Thornburgs
• Found online at Fulton Schools

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Fugitive
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A person that runs away from the law.
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What is a tariff?
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Tariff is a tax charged by a government on
imported goods. (Goods brought into a country)
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What is discrimination?
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Discrimination is a treatment of people based on
a class or category rather than individual merit.
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Underground Railroad
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This was a secret system that helped runaway
slaves escape to Canada or the free states.
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Abolitionists
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These people printed antislavery newspapers and
spoke against slavery to try and end slavery.
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Free States
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A state that did not have slavery.
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Slave States
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A state in which slavery is allowed.
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Popular Sovereignty
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Authority carried out by the people at large.
When the people of a state or territory get to
make decisions for themselves and the FEDERAL
government does not.
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Union
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Another name for the United States.
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• Additional Slides Created byMrs. Righter

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An agricultural crop grown to sale for a profit.
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Slavery
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Slavery

• The owning of people by other people bondage.

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Economics
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Economics

• The study of how goods and services are produced
  and distributed.

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Sectionalism
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Sectionalism

• An intense, sometimes excessive, regard for local
  interests or concerns.
• Northern vs. Southern
• interests interests

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Antebellum
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Antebellum

• In or of the period prior to a war, esp. the
  American Civil War.

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States rights
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States Rights

• In the United States, all rights and powers not
  delegated to the federal government by the
  Constitution nor denied by it to the states.

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Immigration
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Immigration

• The act of coming to live in a new country.

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Urban
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Urban

• of or having to do with a city or town.