Sectionalism/Civil War Vocab

Plantation

• A person who worked to end slavery

• A huge farm that grows crops such as cotton, rice, or sugar cane

• A war between people in the same country

• A small, family-owned farm

Slave State

• A state where slaves lived freely

• A state that did not allow slavery before the Civil War

• A state that allowed slavery before the Civil War

• A state where slaves could not live

Free State

• A state where slavery was against the law before the Civil War

• A state that allowed slavery before the Civil War

• A state where slaves worked

• A state where children voted

Abolitionist

• A person who wanted to abolish taxes

• A person who wanted to keep slavery legal

• A person who wanted to abolish school

• A person who worked to end slavery

Underground Railroad

• A railroad that went under the Earth

• A system of secret routes abolitionists used to help enslaved people escape

• A secret railroad system of the 1800's

Secede

• To move to a new land where no one else lives

• To leave a room

• To join a group

• Withdraw from a group often to form another group

Civil War

• A war between to countries

• A war between people in the same country

• A war between 3 or more countries

• A war over individual rights

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• An Ohio writer that published Uncle Tom's Cabin

• An Ohio conductor who opposed slavery for religious reasons. He became the President of the Underground Railroad

• An Ohio minister who was also a conductor for the Underground Railroad

Levi Coffin

• An Ohio writer who published Uncle Tom's Cabin

• An Ohio conductor who opposed slavery for religious reasons and eventually became the President of the Underground Railroad

• An Ohio minister who was a conductor in the Underground Railroad

John Rankin

• An Ohio minister who was a conductor for the Underground Railroad, helping nearly 2,000 slaves escape.

• The President of the Underground Railroad

• The publisher of Uncle Tom's Cabin