1. Unit 2 Part 1 Orange

2. Abraham Lincolnabolitionists • People who wanted to end slavery.

3. expansion • Act of increasing or making something bigger

4. hardship • A difficult thing that can take time and energy to overcome

5. losses • Something you no longer have; in this case referring to people or death

6. refused • rejected, said no to No! No way!

7. took a stand • decide to support one side of a debate or argument

8. unity • To stand together as one unit; united as one

9. Abraham Lincolnknew • Past tense of to know. learned before

10. formal education • learning in school

11. infancy • the time when a person is a baby

12. politicians • A person who works in the government or politics.

13. ran for • tried to get elected

14. plantations • large farms in the South

15. practice • the work of a doctor or lawyer

16. debates • Public talks at which people discuss different opinions about an issue.

17. seceded • formally stopped being part of a country

18. dedicated • set apart for a purpose

19. Reconstruction • the rebuilding after the Civil War

20. the ages • all of time and human history

21. Nancy Hanksghost • the spirit of a dead person

22. rolling stone • Someone who doesn’t stay in one place for very long; someone who wanders.

23. scraping along • Trying to survive without much money

24. shack • a very small, poorly built house, usually one room

25. prairie • a big field covered with wild grass and flowers

26. pinching times • a time when you have very little money or food

27. get on • do well

28. Lincolngaunt • very thin and bony

29. scraggly • rough, irregular

30. mournful • very sad

31. ungainly • awkward, clumsy

32. laboring • working very hard

33. aloof • away from or distant from

34. mad stray bolt • an unexpected flash of lightening

35. zenith • the sky; the highest point