Chapter 9 Vocab Words- SS

A secret organization that helped escaped enslaved African Americans to get to the North or to Canada.

• Underground Railroad

• Union

• Confederacy

• Compromise

Another name for the United States, especially the northern states during the Civil War

• Compromise

• Confederacy

• Union

• Emancipation

Another name for the Confederate States of America, the southern states during the U.S. Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Underground Railroad

• Emancipation

A person who supported the movement to end slavery.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Emancipation

• Abolistionist

The right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws.

• Abolitionist

• States' Rights

• Union

• Emancipation

To formally stop being part of something.

• Secession

• Union

• Emancipation

• Underground Railroad

People on both sides of an issue giving up something to reach an agreement.

• Emancipation

• Compromise

• Union

• Secession

The setting free of enslaved African Americans.

• Secession

• Confederacy

• Emancipation

• Union

A method of warfare that seeks to destroy civilian as well as military targets to force a surrender.

• Compromise

• Emancipation

• Reconstruction

• Total War

The name of the plan by President Lincoln to help rebuild and heal the country after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Emancipation

• Total War

• Union