SSA - Ch. 20-21 Vocabulary

A person who wanted to end, or abolish, slavery

• abolitionist

• Confederacy

• free state

• Underground Railroad

The bitter conflict fought from 1861 to 1865 between the states that remained in the Union and the states that seceded and formed the Confederacy

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg

• Civil War

• Underground Railroad

The nation formed by the 11 states (in order of secession—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee) that left the Union

• Union

• Gettysburg

• Underground Railroad

• Confederacy

A state in which it was not legal to own slaves

• Gettysburg

• Free state

• Union

• Texas

To officially withdraw from a government or a country

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

• sectionalism

• secede

Strong concern for local interests

• sectionalism

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Underground Railroad

A state in which it was legal to own slaves

• New York

• free state

• Gettysburg

• slave state

A system in which abolitionists secretly helped escaping slaves reach freedom

• abolitionist

• draft

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Underground Railroad

The United States as one country; during the Civil War, the government and the armies of the states that chose to remain a part of the United States

• Confederacy

• Gettysburg

• sectionalism

• Union

The selection of people to serve in an army whether or not they wish to serve

• draft

• abolitionist

• Confederacy

• Union