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2. Abolitionists - people who believed that slavery should be against the law
7. Border states - States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri.
They were slave states, but did not secede.
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.
11. Confederate States of America - the name adopted by the 11 Southern states that seceded
from the Union during the Civil War
13. Credit - An arrangement to receive cash, goods, or services now and pay for them in the
future.
15. Great Depression - The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and
other 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
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 settle
there
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 the
poor
26. Secondary source - Text and/or artifacts that are not original, but written from something
original (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 states
were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union