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Glossary
abandoned left empty or unused immigrants people who come
to live in a country from
abolitionist a person who wants a different one
to end slavery
interment the act of putting
boycott to refuse to do something remains or ashes in a final
as a way of forcing change resting place
commemorate to do something magma molten rock material
special to honor or remember a inside Earth
person or event from the past
mortar a soft building material
confederate relating to the that is spread between bricks or
Confederate States of America; the stones and holds them together
Confederate States of America was when it hardens
a group of 11 states that separated
from the United States in 1860 refuge a place that gives shelter
or protection
descendants people who come
from humans that lived in an sedimentary rock formed in
earlier time nature by the layering of plant
and mineral material
erosion the wearing away of rocks
and soil by natural forces like water suffrage the right to vote
and wind
symbol something that stands
eruption the explosion of for something else
a volcano, or anything that
appears suddenly and violently veterans former members of the
military
fragile easily broken or damaged
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