| A | B |
|---|
| civil war | war between a nation's citizens |
| Slavery | involuntary labor |
| abolitionist | promoted the end of slavery |
| Wiiliam H. Carney | First Afican-American Medal of Honor winner. |
| Abraham Lincoln | US President |
| 1860 | Year Lincoln is elected Presdient. |
| secession | Breaking away from the Union. |
| Union | The states that were loyal to the Constitution. |
| Confederacy | The states that broke away from the Union. |
| nullification | The idea the states could declare US law to be nullified. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's order declaring that freed slaves in the Confederacy |
| Border states | Slave states that did not join th e Confderates. |
| Fredrick Douglass | Afican-Amercan abolitionist and writer. |
| Sojourner Truth | Female slave who became an abolitionist writer. |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate forces. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of the Union Forces. |
| 13th Amendment | Law that abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Protects civil rights from abuse by states. |
| 15th Amendment | Gave freed black men the right to vote. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret group that persecuted freed slaves |
| Reconstruction | Period after Civil War when govt aided freed slaves. |
| Fort Sumter | Union fort attacked by Confederates starting Civil War |
| Appomattox | Virginia courthouse where Lee surrendered. |
| amnesty | Legal forgiveness |
| underground railroad | secret organization the help slaves to escape. |
| Harriet Tubman | Escaped slaved, key leader of the underground railroad. |
| Total war | Grant and Sherman's plan to destroy the South's ability to fight. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Led the "slash and burn" plan in the South. |
| Blockade | Using a navy to block ports. |
