1. CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT VOCABULARY

2. FREE STATE A STATE THAT DID NOT ALLOW SLAVERY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.

3. SLAVE STATE A STATE THAT ALLOWED SLAVERY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.

4. FUGITIVE SOMEONE WHO ESCAPES FROM THE LAW.

5. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A SYSTEM OF SECRET ESCAPE ROUTES THAT LED ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO FREE LAND.

6. SECEDE TO LEAVE

7. CIVIL WAR A WAR BETWEEN PEOPLE IN THE SAME COUNTRY

8. EMANCIPATE TO FREE

9. ASSASSINATE TO MURDER IN A SUDDEN OR SECRET ATTACK.

10. RECONSTRUCTION REBUILDING OF THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

11. FREEDMAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAD BEEN ENSLAVED