sovereign
(noun) - a person who possesses superior power, rank, or authority
soldier
(noun) - a member of an army
Slave Codes
(noun) - laws that each US state, or colony, enacted that defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters.
slave
(noun) - a person held in forced servitude
sit-in
(noun) - a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move
short-staple cotton
(noun) - a cotton variety that has shorter fibers than long-staple cotton and became the signature crop across the American South after the invention of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin in 1793.
shoal
(noun) - a shallow area of water in a river, often rocky
sharecropper
(noun) - a person who enters an agreement with a land owner to farm the land and then pay a portion (share) of the produce as rent
shag dance
(noun) - the Carolina Shag is a partner dance done primarily to Beach Music, originating along the North and South Carolina coast.
Senate
(noun) - the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly.
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