Civil War Vocab Words

A person held captive and forced to work without pay

• prisoner
• captive
• detainee
• slave

A large farm, usually in a warm climate, on which many workers, servants, or slaves live and work

• Farmstead
• Plantation
• Ranch
• Pasture

A condition where one person is owned by another

• bondage
• indentured servitude
• freedom
• slavery

The rights and powers held by the state governments, rather than the federal government

• States' Rights
• National Authority
• Centralized Powers
• Federal Rights

To end or prohibit by law

• prohibit
• forbid
• abolish

• allow

Someone who wants to end slavery

• Enslaver
• Slaveholder
• Slavekeeper
• Abolitionist

A system of secret routes used by free people in the North and South that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Underwater Railway
• Skybound Pathway
• Overground Highway
• Underground Railroad

Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state

• Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
• Underground Railroad Act of 1850
• Abolitionist Movement of 1830
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

A person who has escaped from a place or who is hiding to avoid capture or arrest

• runaway
• escapee
• fleeing
• fugitive