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vocabulary

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Definition
Civil War   a war between the norther states and the southern states, fought from 1861-186  
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Anti-Slavery   against slavery  
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Slave   a person who is owned by someone else  
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Slaveholders   those who owned slaves  
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Slave catcher   a person who made money by finding escaped slaves, capturing them, and returning them to their owners  
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Rebellion   a fight or struggle against any kind of authority or control  
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stations   hiding places on the Underground Railroad; another name for safe houses  
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passengers   a code word for slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad  
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spitituals   religious songs sung by the slaves to lift their spirits and relay coded information  
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Stationsmasters   people who allowed runaway slaves to hide in their homes  
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conductors   a code word for people who guided escapted slaves on the Underground railroad  
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Safe house   a place where fleeing slaves could seek food and shelter  
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Underground Railroad   a secret network of people, houses, churches, or other places that helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom  
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North Star   used by slaves to find their way north and to freedom  
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Drinking Gourd   code name for the Big Dipper, the group of stars runaway slaves used to locate the north star  
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Emancipation Procolomation   issued by President Lincoln, this document declared that slaves in rebel states were free  
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Fugitive Slave Act   law passed in 1850 requiring that escapted slaves be returned to their owners not matter where in the US they were found  
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Patrollers   men who searched for escaped slaves  
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Master   slave owners were called this by their slaves  
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quilt   blanket made from squares of fabric that are sewn together; sometimes used to pass information to runaways  
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Harriett Tubman   escaped slave and one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad; helped lead over 300 slaves to freeedom  
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William Still   an escaped slave who is often referred to as "The Father of the Underground Railroad"  
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load of potatoes/parcels/bundle of wood   code words for the transporting of escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad  
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code   a system of words, phrases, and symbols used to communicate secret messages  
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Promise Land   a code name for Canada during the time of the Underground Railroad  
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