| A | B |
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| slave | a person who is the property of someone else and must work for their master |
| master | a person who owns a slave |
| abolitionist | someone who does not believe in and fights against slavery |
| Fugitive Slave Laws | allowed a master to capture runaway slaves in the North and bring them back to the South. Allow lead to slaves escaping to Canada. |
| Underground Railroad | a series of safe houses and hiding spots slaves used to escape slavery in the South and reach freedom in the North. |
| station | a safe house on the Underground Railroad |
| conductor | a person that leads slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| patroller or bounty hunter | a person that is hired by a master to catch runaway slaves |
| Free states | states that do not have slavery |
| slave states | states that do have slavery |
| "Moses" | Harriet Tubman |
| safe house signals | quilt patterns, lights on porch, "friend of a friend" |
| Emancipation Proclamation | a document signed by President Lincoln that freed the slaves |
| main reason for the Civil War | the North did not want slavery and the South did want slavery |
| slave tricks and disguises | different clothes, hiding in wagons & barns, "pretending to be slaves", traveling at night and near the water. |
