CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT VOCABULARY
FREE STATE A STATE THAT DID NOT ALLOW SLAVERY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.
SLAVE STATE A STATE THAT ALLOWED SLAVERY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.
FUGITIVE SOMEONE WHO ESCAPES FROM THE LAW.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A SYSTEM OF SECRET ESCAPE ROUTES THAT LED ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO FREE LAND.
SECEDE TO LEAVE
CIVIL WAR A WAR BETWEEN PEOPLE IN THE SAME COUNTRY
EMANCIPATE TO FREE
ASSASSINATE TO MURDER IN A SUDDEN OR SECRET ATTACK.
RECONSTRUCTION REBUILDING OF THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
FREEDMAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAD BEEN ENSLAVED