Any person who wanted to end slavery and actively did something about it.

A home along the Underground Railroad where a slave could hide while traveling north.

A person who hid runaway slaves in their homes to help them find freedom.

A person who did not hide slaves in their home, but helped instead by donating food or money.

A large farm, typically found in the south, where workers were usually African slaves.

A group of Christians who began the anti-slavery movement in the United States and worked as conductors on the Underground Railroad.

A system of exchange where Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent goods and money to Africa.

The side of triangular trade that brought slaves from Africa to America.

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed slave catchers to catch and return slaves to their original owners.

When eleven Southern states left the Union in 1860 which led to the American Civil War.

The name of the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.

The name for the Northern states or free states during the American Civil War.

An American slave who sued his master in the Supreme Court for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was considered illegal.

A belief that states can make their own laws.

A federal base in Charleston, South Carolina that the Confederates attacked to start the Civil War.

A declaration issued by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in 1863, stating that all slaves in the Confederate states were free.

The 16th President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War and freed the slaves.

The president of the Confederate States of America.

An American stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.