A | B |
Union? | Those states that wanted to keep the United States together. |
Confederate States of America? | The Southern States that seceded from the Union. |
Rebels? | Soldiers of the Confederacy |
Blue Coats? | Soldiers of the Union |
Free State? | States forbidding slavery |
Slave State? | States permitting slavery |
Jefferson Davis? | President of the Confederacy |
Abraham Lincoln? | President of the United States during the Civil War |
South Carolina? | First state to secede from the Union |
Harriet Tubman? | Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
Underground Railroad? | Escape route for slaves from the South to the North |
Abolitionists? | People who wanted to end slavery |
Secede? | To leave |
Fort Sumter? | The attack was the beginning of the Civil War |
Emancipation Proclamation? | Written by Lincoln to set the slaves in the Confederacy free |
emancipate? | to set free |