Chapter 6 – Alabama in Conflict

The Civil War

abolitionist

abolitionist

• A person who wanted to end slavery

secede

secede

• Withdraw or break away from

inaugurate

inaugurate

• To install in office with a ceremony

casualty

casualty

• Person who is injured, killed or captured during a war

sharecropper

sharecropper

• Person who farms land that belongs to someone else

carpetbagger

carpetbagger

• Person who moved to the South after the war and supported Reconstruction

tariff

tariff

• Tax on goods brought into one country from another to be sold

regiment

regiment

• A unit of soldiers

manufacturing

manufacturing

• The process of making goods by hand or with machines

freedmen

freedmen

• African Americans who had once been enslaved

scalawag

representative

• Person elected to act or speak on behalf of others

scalawag

• Southerner who supported Reconstruction

representative

representative

• Person elected to act or speak on behalf of others