| A | B |
|---|
| abolitionist | against slavery |
| Underground Railroad | escape route |
| Confederate States of America | southern states that seceded |
| Union | northern states |
| Nat Turner | slave who led a Virginia revolt |
| John Brown | Harper's Ferry raid to free slaves |
| Abraham Lincoln | elected US president 1860 |
| Jefferson Davis | Confederate president |
| EmancipationProclamation | law to free southern slaves |
| Robert E. Lee | southern general |
| Stonewall Jackson | He stood like a stone wall |
| Belle Boyd | confederate spy |
| Ulysses S. Grant | northern general |
| Richmond | Confederate capital |
| Appomattox Court House | surrender site |
| Reconstruction | period of rebuilding after 1865 |
| Freedmen's Bureau | supplied ex-slaves with food, housing, medicine, clothing, fuel |
| sharecropping | renting land |
| Booker T. Washington | ex-slave, Tuskegee Institute founder |
| carpetbagger | people from north helping slaves |
