Term | Definition |
Emancipation | the freeing of enslaved people |
Railhead | A town where rail head tracks begin or end |
Homestead | A settler's home and land |
draft | government selection of people to serve in the military |
state's rights | the idea that states,not the government should make the final decisions about matters that effect the state |
tarrif | a tax on imported items |
Harriet Tubman | escaped slave woman who was called the Moses of her people she went back to the south 19 times to help slaves escape as a conductor of the under ground railroad. |
sectional | loyalty to one part of the country |
slave state | a state that allows slavery |
free state | a state that doesn't allow slavery |
Morse code | a cod e that sends messages easier and faster |
transcontineal | railroad that crosses a continent |
cow hand | led cattle to railroad where the cattle were shipped to eastern and northern hemispheres. |
barbed wire | a twisted wire with a sharp barb point every few inches |
telegraph | a machine that sends electric signals over wire telegraph lines |
predjudice | a negative or unfair opinion |
cattle drive | followed trails where water and grass were available |
fugitive | someone who runs away without trying to get caught |
abolitionist | someone who speaks up against slavery and tries to stop it |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to protest slavery and the fugitive slave law |
John Brown | he got a group together and protested around an army base |
Dred Scott | asked the supreme court to let him out of slavery legally |
Confederacy | the name chosen by the states that left the union at the time of the civil war |
Casualty | soldiers that were killed or wounded |
Union | another name for the US |
Secession | when a state decides to leave or remove their selves from something |
Discrimination | the unfair treatment of a particular group |
Civil War | a war between two groups or regions to achieve a goal |
Fugitive Slave law | if you saw a runaway slave you have to return him/her to his/her master |
William Lloyd Garrison | White abolitionist who wrote "The Liberator" an anti slavery newspaper |
Fredrick Douglas | Escaped slave who went to the North and became an abolitionist speaker |
Popular Sovreignty | the right of people the decide |
Emancipation Proclmainmation | a declaration that declares that on the first January all slaves will be free |
Boreder States | A state that has some slaves but is a union state; Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware |
Sojourner Truth | former slave woman who worked to end slavery and or women's rights. |