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People who resisted slavery?
Abolitionists
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Regional loyalty?
Sectionalism
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To stop ships from entering or leaving ports?
Blockade
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To withdraw or leave the union?
Secede
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A system if secret escape routes leading to freed lands?
Underground railroad
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Sets of laws which were designed to control enslaved people?
Slave codes
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Taxes (especially on imported goods)?
Tariff
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Idea that states, not the federal government, should have the final say in their affairs?
States rights
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A person who is killed or wounded in war?
Casualty
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To murder (especially a famous person)?
Assassinate
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Supreme Court justice who ruled that enslaved people did not have the rights as American citizens?
Roger B. Taney
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Seized a weapons storehouse, hoping to arm enslaved people?
John Brown
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Published an abolitionist newspaper called the “Liberator” and founded the Anti-Slavery Society?
William Lloyd Garrison
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Led enslaved people to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
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Escaped from slavery; became an abolitionist, speaker, and writer?
Fredrick Douglass
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Attempted to earn his freedom from slavery by taking his case to the United States Supreme Court?
Dred Scott
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Spy for the Confederacy?
Belle Boyd
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16th President of the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
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Commanding general for the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
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President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
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Nurse for the Union Army – “Angel of the Battlefield”?
Clara Barton
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Commanding general for the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
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Confederate general accidentally shot by his own troops?
Thomas “Stone Wall” Jackson
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Led his Union troops on 300 mile march to the Sea?
William T. Sherman
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