| A | B |
|---|
| Thomas Jefferson | writer of Declaration of Independence |
| Martin Luther King Jr | worked for Civil Rights and led March on Washington |
| Rosa Parks | Bus boycott |
| Underground Railroad | route in which slaves were helped to escape from South to North |
| Sequoyah | Cherokee indian who invented Cherokee alphabet |
| Trail of Tears | tragic journey of Cherokee to Oklahoma |
| Aparthied | system that took away the rights of blacks in South Africa |
| Segregation | separating a group of people |
| Ulysses S. Grant | leader of the Union (North) Army |
| Robert E. Lee | leader of the Confederacy (South) Army |
| Abolitionist | group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom |
| Emmancipation Proclamation | name of document that Abraham Lincoln signed, freeing slaves |
| Civil War | fighting between the North and South that lasted for four long years |
| Colony | place ruled by a distant country |
| House of Burgesses | group of citizens who made laws for the colony of Virginia |
| boycott | refusing to buy or use a company's product or service |
| civil rights | rights of all people to be treated equally under the law |
| Union | name of the North side during Civil War |
| Confederacy | name of the South side during Civil War |
