Vocabulary
Did not allow slavery
What are Free States
A war between people in the same country
What is a civil war
Did not allow
What is slavery
Did allow
The battle that was fought for 3 days, and the Union won
What is Gettysburg
Allowed Slavery
What are Slaves states
to free
Book written about how slavery is wrong
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
The two crops large plantations graw
What are tobacco and cotton
April 9, 1865
What is when the Suth gave up
A secret set of routes that led to freedom
What is the Underground Railroad
buildings so high they seemed to touch the sky
What are skyscrapers
A hero to the North for trying to steal guns with his followers to give to the slaves. He was hung.
Who is John Brown
Slave who escaped to the North and became the most famous person working on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
The amount of soldiers that died in the war
What is more than 600,000
New government formed when some Southern state voted to leave the Union
What is the Confederacy
rebuilding
The amount of African Americans that served in the Union Army
What is 180,000
The city the Union army took over that cut the Confederacy in half
What is Vicksburg
They said that slaves had no rights in 1857
Who is the Supreme Court
Being paid by keeping part of the crops you grow
What is sharecropping
people who moved west, onto free land offered by the government, if you live on it for 5 years
What are homesteaders
The speech Abraham Lincoln gave to free the slaves
Who is Congress
This was finished in 1869 and linked the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is the Transcontinental Railroad