Vocab 1
These people had to work for long periods of time with no pay.
Slaves
This place is a large farm where crops are grown.
Plantation
This word is the opposite of win.
Defeat
The South's economy depended on this.
Crops
This person was President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This word means "to grow."
Expand
This is what the group of states that did NOT secede from the United States called themselves.
The Union
This word means "how much something is worth."
Value
The North's economy depended on this.
Factories
This person was a nurse who started the Red Cross.
Clara Barton
This is what the group of states that seceded from the United States called themselves.
Confederacy (Confederate States of America)
These people wanted slavery to be abolished.
Abolitionists
This word means a group of people that give advice to someone important.
Advisors
I am the secret route that slaves used to escape to the North.
Underground Railroad
This person escaped slavery and then worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This is what people called the Confederate soldiers.
Rebels
This word means "the system in which people make, buy, sell, and trade items or services."
Economy
This is what people called the Union soldiers.
Yankees
I am the group of stars that helped guide slaves to the North.
The Drinking Gourd
This person was General of the Confederate army.
Robert E. Lee
This is what we call a war between groups of people that live in the SAME country.
Civil War
I am the document that said slavery would be abolished.
Emancipation Proclamation
This word means "financial success or good fortune."
Prosperity
I was the first battle of the US Civil War.
Battle of Bull Run (Battle of Manassas)
This person was General of the Union army.
Ulysses S. Grant