| A | B |
|---|
| SLAVERY | Important to farmers in the SOUTH |
| COTTON | What Southern farmers produced - used SLAVES to help |
| FACTORIES | Northern states had more of these |
| NORTHERN STATES | Against slavery; wanted to make slavery illegal |
| SOUTHERN STATES | Wanted to keep slavery |
| ABOLITIONIST | People who wanted to ABOLISH (end) slavery. |
| FREE blacks and whites | Abolitionists who printed antislavery newspapers and spoke against slavery |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | An antislavery book about the cruelty of slavery. |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who attacked an Army post to start a slavery rebellion. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | A law that ordered people to return runaway slaves. |
| Dred Scott decision | A decision of the Supreme Court that said slaves were property and had no rights. |
| SLAVERY, STATE'S RIGHTS | The two MAIN CAUSES of the Civil War. |
| INDEPENDENCE and RESPONSIBILITY | What the South thought would happen if the states got more rights. |
| SECTIONALISM | Loyalty to one part of a country |
| FUGITIVE | A person who is running away. |
| UNION | Another name for the United States |
| CIVIL WAR | A war between two groups or regions of the same nation. |
| SECEDE | To leave |
| DISCRIMINATION | To judge a person |
| ULYSSES S. GRANT | Head of the Union Army (the North). |
| ROBERT E. LEE | Head of the Confederate Army; a master of military strategy. |
| JEFFERSON DAVIS | President of the Confederate States of America from 1861-1865. |
| THOMAS JACKSON | Nicknamed "Stonewall" during the battle of First Bull Run because he stood like a "stone wall" when facing the enemy. |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | President of the United States; wrote the Gettysburg Address |
| EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION | Issued by President Lincoln; ended slavery. |
