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Chapter 8
The Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | someone who wants to end slavery. |
| secede | to withdraw from an organization or a country |
| Union | the United States of America, often in reference to the Northern states during the Civil War. |
| Confederacy | also called the Confederate States of America, the eleven Southern states who seceded from the Union during the Civil War. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an order issued by president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 announcing that enslaved people in the Confederate states were free. |
| amendment | a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document. |
| Dred Scott | Slave who's lawsuit against the United States government raised global awareness for the abolitionist movement. |
| Eliza Winston | An American slave who was emancipated from her owners while with them on vacation in a free state. |
| Frederick Douglas | An African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. |
| Robert Hickman | One of the first people to escape slavery and seek refuge in Minnesota. |
| Charley Goddard | Joined the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry at the age of 15 and helped hold the Union line at the battle of Gettysburg. |
| Albert Woolson | Duluth, Mn native who died at the age of 109 as the last living Union soldier. |
| Civil War | 1861-1865 |
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