| A | B |
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| slave code | Laws that shaped the day to day lifes of enslaved people |
| Underground Railroad | A system of escaper routes for enslaved people, leading to free land |
| Confederates | Name of the Southern Army |
| Union | united states name during the civil war |
| Civil War | a war between people of the same country |
| Secede (secession) | to leave the Union |
| Border States | a state between the north and south that allowed slavery but was with the union during Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The presidental order of 1863 that freed enslaved people in the confederate states |
| Gettysbirgh Address | A short speech given by Lincoln in 1863 at the dedication of a gettysburgh cementary |
| assassination | the murder of a political leader such as a president |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Harriet tubman | an escaped slave who was one of the best known conductors of the underground railroad |
| Henry Clay | He helped settle differences between North and South, known as the Great Compromiser |
| Dred Scott | In 1857 the supreme court said that he a slave should not be given his freedom |
| Stephen Douglas | A member of the Demecratic party who ran agianst lincoln during election of 1860 |
| Jefferson Davis | confederate president who lead the attack on fort sumter on april 12,1861 |
| Abe Lincoln | president of the north who sighned the Emancipation Proclomation and gave the gettysburg adress |
| Robert e. Lee | gneral of the south |
| Ulysses S. Grant | general of the north |
| Andrew Johnson | Became the new president after Abe Lincoln |
