| A | B |
| compromise | a way to settle an argument |
| fugitive | running away or fleeing, as from the law |
| slavery | the state of one bound in servitude as the property of a household |
| repeal | to revoke, recall, or reverse |
| Yankee | inhabitant of a northern U.S. state |
| secede | withdraw formally from membership in an organization |
| telegraph | communications system that transmits and receives simple unmodulated electric impulses |
| opposition | being in conflict |
| abolition | act of doing away with |
| emancipation | act of setting free from the power |
| arsenal | governmental establishment for the storing war materials |
| union | the United States of America regarded as a national unit |
| confederate | oppose by force an e |
| rebellion | oppose by force an estabished government |
| rebel | defiance toward an authority |
| confederate | to band together |