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  • The Underground Railroad is a secret system of routes that were used by people escaping slavery in the 1800's. True or False.
    True
  • Segregation is the separation of people based on race. True or False?
    True
  • A group that is bound together for a purpose; the term that referred to the Northern states during the civil war (union or unison?)
    union
  • A farmer who gives crops to a landlord as payment for using the land is called a ____?
    sharecropper
  • A person who wanted to end slavery is called a sharecropper. True or False?
    False
  • An abolitionist is a farmer who gives crops to a landlord as payment for using land. True or False?
    False
  • The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuild is called reconstruction. True or False?
    True
  • To break away from a group or government (recede or secede?)
    secede
  • A large farm that usually grows a single crop is a plantation. True or False?
    True.
  • An abolitionist is a person who wanted to end slavery. Tue or False?
    True
  • What do you call a large farm that usually grows a single crop?
    a plantation
  • What does emancipate mean?
    to set free
  • An official public statement (automation, proclamation?)
    proclomation
  • What does discrimination mean?
    to treat unequally