SS EUS Unit 9 - Vocabulary

 the shutting off of travel flow into and out of a place

• blockade

• barrier

• border

money paid in a regular way to a person for doing work or giving help

• barter

• wages

• economy

a tenant farmer who gives a portion of his or her

crop to the owner of the land as rent

• carpetbagger

• revolutionist

• sharecropper

soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback

• cavalry

• immigrant

• nomad

the period immediately following the Civil War

• Revolution

• Renaissance

• Reconstruction

a large farm or estate used for growing rubber, cotton, or other crops to sell

• plantation

• mansion

• adobe

a border between two countries

• grassland

• frontier

• dugout

to withdraw from a group or a political union

• separate

• secede

• infiltrate

to cancel

• nullify

• edit

• expand

soldiers on foot

• enlisted

• cavalry

• infantry