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| the idea that states, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about matters that affect them. |
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| a person held in servitude as property. |
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| loyalty to one part of the country. |
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| someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end, slavery. |
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| a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South. |
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| when a part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest. |
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| the freeing of enslaved people. |
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| all the people in a country who are not in the military during wartime. |
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| an idea that the people who live in a place make decisions for themselves. |
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| a group of people that work to abolish slavery. |
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| The period of rebuilding of the South and the process of it rejoining the Union. |
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| An organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor whites and blacks during the Reconstruction. |
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| A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop. |
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| The President of the United States during the Civil War. |
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| The Union General during the Civil War. |
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| Commander of the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
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| Confederate leader under General Lee. |
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