My ABC Book by: Payton, Maggie, Kirsten Slavery and Emancipation

A is for Abolishanist A is for Abolitionists Abolitionists/ people who wanted to abolish slavery in the south for good.

B is for Bleeding Kansas When southerners and northerners moved to Kansas to vote under popular sovereignty.

C is for conductors People who helped enslaved people escape to the north.

D is for Draft A selection of men chosen to fight in the war.

E is for Emancipation Proclamation A document stated that all enslaved people in the south were to be freed.

F is for Frederick Douglass He escaped to the north and published The North Star.

G is for Gettysburg Address The speech that Lincoln gave to dedicate to the Gettysburg Cemetery.

H is for Harriet Tubman She is a famous conductor and a Union spy.

I is for industry Is what the north depends on.

J is for Jim Crow Laws Allowed segregation in the south.

K is for KU KLUX KLAN Terrorized African Americans.

L is for Lincoln Lincoln was the President of the Union and did not support slavery.

M is for Missouri Compromise Missouri admitted as a slave state and Massachusetts became a free state.

N is for North The North also called the Union, were against slavery.

O is for Opinion public opinion It changed peoples opinions about the war. It was now also about slavery and freedom.

P is for Pickett’s Charge When Lee ordered Pickett to charge the Union lines.

Q is for Quaker Guns A trick to fool the Union in to thinking they were better armed than they really were.

R is for Reconstruction The time after the Civil War when they were rebuilding the south.

S is for slavery It is the enslavement of African Americans

T is for Tariffs Special taxes on goods coming into the United States.

U is for Underground Railroad A passage way for enslaved people to escape to the north.

V is for Vicksburg A town that the Union took over and helped them to control Richmond.

W is for Western Movement Do to western movement the whites slaved owners had to buy more enslaved people to harvest more cotton.

X is for xanthorrhiza A medicine taken from a root that is used as a tonic in Columbi

Y is for Yankee A nickname for the North.

Z is for Zouave A group of people recognized by their bright colored uniforms.