Objective: Students will become familiar with terms that they will hear on their trip to the Booker T. Washington National Monument.

Subject: Language Arts, Social Studies

Materials: Vocabulary list

Procedure: Use the following list to familiarize students with terms that will be used on their trip.

1. plantation: a large farm where a cash crop is planted and grown to sell
2. "big house": the house that the owners of the plantation lived in
3. emancipation: freedom, especially of the slaves in the U.S.
4. Emancipation Proclamation: the document issued by President Lincoln, which became official on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
5. slavery: the owning or keeping of slaves as a practice or institution; slaveholding
6. cash crop: plants that are grown to sell for a profit
7. grapevine telegraph: an oral form of communication in slave culture in which news spread rapidly among slaves from plantation to plantation
8. Underground Railroad: an organized system of "conductors" and safe houses that helped runaway slaves escape to the North
9. agrarian: relating to the land; relating to the cultivation or ownership of land
10. property: something that is owned by someone
11. casualty: a soldier who is lost to active service, especially through being killed, wounded, or captured
12. indentured servitude: a contract to work for a person for a certain number of years, usually to pay for passage to the New World; at the end of the contract these servants are free
13. industrial: having to do with industries; relating to factories or the work, products, or people within
14. insurrection: a rising up against established authority; rebellion; revolt
15. Union: the side of the U.S. during the Civil War; the North
16. Confederate: the side of the South during the Civil War; Rebels
17. territory: a part of the United States having its own legislature but without the status of a State and under the administration of an appointed governor