| A | B |
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| Confederacy | name of the secessionist country |
| Fort Sumter | Fort in Charleston where the fist shots were fired |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Robert E Lee | Commanding General of the Confederate Military |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Last Commanding General of the Union Military for the Civil War |
| Massachussets 54th | First all black regiment allowed to engage in battle |
| Frederick Douglass | Feed man, abolitionist, speaker, publisher |
| Only man at the Seneca Falls Convention | Frederick Douglass |
| Harriet Tubman | nicknamed "Moses", led escaping slaves to freedom |
| Sojourner Truth | Feed slave, wandering motivational speaker and abolitionist |
| "Ain't I a Woman" | famous impromtu speech by Sojourner Truth |
| Harriet Beacher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Woman Lincoln credited with starting the Civil War | Harriet Beacher Stowe |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | fictional account of slavery that rocked the north and enraged the south |
| Popular soveriegnty | the right for territorial citizens to determine their own laws particularly slavery. |
| John Brown | White man who led the failed raid at Harpers Ferry |
| The liberator | Abolitionist newspaper |
| The North Star | Frederick Douglass' newpaper |
| the north star | astrological sign that led escaping slaves toward the North |
| sectionalism | geographical divisions and the loyaly engendered by the citizens of that geographical location |
| tariffs | tax on imported goods from outside the country |
| emancipation | free the slaves |
| Underground RR | collection of secret paths, safe houses, and people all meant to lead escaping slaves toward freedom |
| The Blue | Union colors |
| The Gray | Confederate colors |
| 36 30' | latitudinal boundary mark free and slave territories |
| Antietam | Bloodiest single day battle in the Civil WAr |
| States Rights | The reason the Civil war started |
| Haitian Revolution | Revolt that started slave revolts in the south |
| confederate POW camp | Andersonville |
| popular soverieignty | territorial citizens right to choose their own laws - particularly with regard to slavery |
| Slave narratives | collection of autobiographical works by slaves |
