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ABC Book of US History. By: Dee Reeves. A. Abolitionist. ABSTAIN. A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery. To not take part in some activity such as voting. B. Backcountry. Bicameral. A region of hills and forests west of the tide water.
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ABC Book of US History By: Dee Reeves
A Abolitionist ABSTAIN • A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery. • To not take part in some activity such as voting.
B Backcountry Bicameral • A region of hills and forests west of the tide water. • Consisting of two houses o chambers especially in a legislature.
C Cash crops cede • Farm crop raised to be sold for money. • To give up by treaty.
D Debtor decree • Person or country that owes money. • An order or decision given by one in authority.
E Effigy Emancipate • Rag figure representing an unpopular individual. • To free from slavery.
F famine fugitive • An extreme shortage of food. • Runaway or trying to run away.
G genocide Greenback • The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. • Peace of US paper money first issued by the north during the civil war.
H Habeas corpus Human rights A legal order for and inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawful imprisoned. rights regarded as belonging to all persons, such as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution.