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Cilvil war
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Free state | Did not allow slavery |
| Slave state | Allowed slavery |
| fugitive slave act | Required all Americans to turn in people who had escaped slavery |
| underground railroad | System of secret escape routes that led enslaved people to free lands |
| Harriet Tubman | She escaped slavery herself, one of the best-known conductors on the Underground railroad |
| secede | leave the union |
| Confederacy | Robert E Lee was a general for these states |
| Union | Ulysses S. Grant was a general for these states |
| Abraham Lincoln | issued the emancipation proclamation |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate states of america |
| Gettysburg Address | Gave soldiers hope after a 3 day battle |
| Border states | permitted slavery but had not seceded |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed slaves that belonged to states fighting against the union |
| Fort Sumter | marked the beginning of the civil war |
| Missouri compromise | Missouri entered into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state |