Key words

• Civil war


  A war fought between citizens of the same country
• Rebellion - an act of armed resistance to a government or social order
• Confederacy - US states in the south who declared independence from the United States
• Underground Railroad - a secret network helping the enslaved escape to the North or Canada
• Reconstruction - the period following thr civil war during which the South was controlled by the US government and new laws were introduced, including rights for black Americans
• Missouri Compromise - a legal agreement that the new state of Missouri could be a slave state while all land to the west of it would be free (from slavery)