| A | B |
|---|
| Underground Railroad | secret network of people who helped slaves reach freedom |
| Union | The United States of America |
| abolitionist | A person who worked to try to end slavery before the Civil War. |
| economy | a system of making and spending money |
| emanicipation | setting free, esp. from slavery. Freedom |
| fugitive | A person who runs away or escapes |
| resist | to work or fight against. |
| secede | for a state to break away from the rest of the country |
| slave codes | series of rules that monitored the movements and actions of enslaved Africans. |
| states' rights | the belief that the people of each state have the right to decide laws for themselves |
