| A | B |
|---|
| Underground Railroad | system to help slaves escape |
| Fugitive Slave Law | allowed slave owners to pursue and capture escaped slaves |
| abolitionists | people who wanted to do away with slavery |
| South Carolina | the first state to secede |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | where the Civil War began |
| Antietam | place where Lee's first invasion of the north ended |
| Gettysburg | Union victory where Lee's second invasion of the North ended |
| Vicksburg | Union victory that allowed the North to split the South |
| Richmond | the Confederate capital |
| William T. Sherman | led the "March to the Sea" |
| Appomattox | Place of the surrender that ended the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | the process of rebuilding the South and bringing it back into the Union |
| martyr | someone who dies for a good cause |
| 14th Amendment | provides equal protection of the la |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated President Lincoln |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | antislavery book |
| border states | had slaves, but were loyal to the North |
| Dred Scott | Slave who sued for his freedom |
| Radical Republicans | members of Congress who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction |
