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Definition: It´s a term used to describe the Northern and Western states that fought against the Confederacy.

Sentence: During the Civil War the Union was made up of 21 million people and 23 states.

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Definition: It´s a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was eventually published in 1851.

Sentence: The novel Uncle Tom´s Cabin had a major impact on slavery.

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Definition: It was any of the 15 states in which slavery was legal to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Sentence: In 1820 Missouri was considered a slave state and Maine was considered a free state due to the Missouri Compromise.

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Definition: They were laws that were drafted by individual states/colonies in the South.

Sentence: The slave codes were also punishments that the slaves receive if they decided to disobeyed their orders.

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Definition: It's used to describe the forced separation of people by their race.

Sentence: Laws began to enforce segregation when the Reconstruction ended to the civil rights movement.

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Definition: It's an extreme loyalty to someone's region of a country.

Sentence: During the 1800s sectionalism grew so much because the North and South had different economic interests.

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Definition: It's an act that formally breaks away from an organization.

Sentence: Some states seceded after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which caused the Union to build for many years.

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Definition: It's a large government/privately owned farm where a single commercial crop is grown.

Sentence: Places that are colonized have plantations all around the world.

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Definition: Whoever was on the plantation was responsible for checking the enslaved people to make sure they did the work they were expected to do.

Sentence: Usually the overseer punished those who either disobeyed them or didn't work, but the enslaved people were also considered valuable property.

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Definition: It preserved the history of humankind's ancestors and their explanations of the world.

Sentence: A lot of different civilizations have their own oral traditions just like the African Americans that had all kinds of different stories to tell during that time.

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Definition: He was an African American born into slavery and led the most effective slave rebellion in American History.

Sentence: Nat Turner and seven other people that he was enslaved with murdered the family that owned them.

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Definition: He was an extreme abolitionist who fought slavery and became martyr to his cause.

Sentence: John Brown led a big group of people that contained 16 white men and 5 African American men that went on a raid.

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Definition: They were laws that outlined the punishments, requirements, and producers that were related to the return of escaped slaves to their owners.

Sentence: The earliest fugitive slave law required the return of runaway slaves to their owners.

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Definition: It referred to the U.S states that didn't allow slavery.

Sentence: The free states were mainly located in the Northeast, and the slave states were located in the Southeast.

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Definition: He was an African American man that was born into slavery in Maryland.

Sentence: Fredrick Douglass described his life about slavery plus he spoke out for abolition and discrimination towards African Americans.

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Definition: It's an act that can free someone from another person's control.

Sentence: When Abraham Lincoln was president of the U.S he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed enslaved people that were in the Confederate States.

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Definition: He was an African American man whose freedom was controlled by the Supreme Court.

Sentence: Dred Scott moved to states that were considered "free" with his slave owner, but he was treated as if he was a slave.

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Definition: It is a term that shows how people were being treated differently due to their race, age, or even their religion.

Sentence: Some things like Civil rights may have legally helped the people that were being discriminated.

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Definition: It was a war fought by the Northern states and the southern states.

Sentence: The Civil War ended after four years of battle on April 9, 1865.

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Definition: It is a term used to describe a union of states that don't have a strong central government.

Sentence: Some states decided to form a Confederacy because they believed Northerners were trying to take away their rights.

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Definition: It was a group of laws that Congress passed in 1850 to resolve ongoing conflict between the Northern and Southern states over the spread of slavery into the western states.

Sentence: The Northern states didn't want slavery to be legal while on the other hand the South wanted it to be legal, so this caused conflict in the Compromise of 1850.

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Definition: It was a movement to end slavery and the slave trade.

Sentence: The abolition movement began after the ratification of the Constitution in the late 1700s.

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Definition: He was the 16th president of the United States of America during the Civil War.

Sentence: Five days after the Civil War ended John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater.

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Definition: It's an act of war that the military uses if ships, aircraft, or any type of vehicle attempts to risk being shot at to trespass.

Sentence: There is also such thing as a land blockade that consists of troops and military vehicles.