| A | B |
|---|
| slave codes | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved people - harsh penalties |
| abolitionist | a person who wanted to end slavery |
| states' rights | the right of each state to make it's own decisions as long as those decisions were not in conflict with the US Constitution |
| secede | formally withdraw |
| civil war | a war fought among people in the same country |
| ironclad | wooden ships covered with iron plates |
| ration | limit amounts |
| Emancipation Proclamation | order that freed all slaves in the Confederate states |
| siege | cut off from food and supplies |
| truce | both sides agree to stop fighting |
| Where were the industrialized states? | North |
| industrialized | where factories produced the goods |
| agricultural | where cash crops were planted and slaves worked |
| cash crops | tobacco, rice, and cotton |
| Where were the agricultural states? | South |
| Why didn't the South want to free the slaves? | they were afraid of losing their plantations |
| What did the North want for the new states in the West? | They wanted them to be free states |
| What did the South want for the new states in the West? | They wanted them to be slave states. |
| Why did the North and the South fight over the new states? | The each wanted to protect their power over the other. |
| What jobs did the slaves do on plantations? | planting, caring for crops, cooking, cleaning, taking care of children, blacksmiths, carpenters |
| Nat Turner's revolt | slave revolt in Virginia - slaves attacked and killed whites |
| What were some of the slave codes? | slaves could not meet in groups, read, write, own guns |
| John Brown | abolitionist - led revolt in Harper's Ferry against the government in the South |
| What happened in Harper's Ferry? | broke in armory building and stole weapons |
| armory | military building used for storing weapons |
| What happened to John Brown? | He was hanged for treason. |
| treason | not being loyal to your country |
| Underground Railroad | network of secret routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to freedom |
| hiding places on the Underground RR | churches, homes of abolitionists |
| Harriet Tubman | conductor on the Underground Railroad - escaped from slavery herself & helped others |
| What was the first state to secede from the US? | South Carolina |
| Who was the President during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What the the new nation called? | The Confederate States of America |
| What did these states do? Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas | joined the Confederacy |
| Who was president of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
