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Social Studies
4th Grade Unit 3 lesson 1
Word | Definition |
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Emancipate | set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions. |
Civil War | a war between citizens of the same country |
Slave State | any of the southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War. |
Free State | a state of the US in which slavery was illegal. |
Secede | withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization |
Border State | any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War. |
William Still | William Still was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist |
Abigail Goodwin | Ran an underground railroad station from her Salem house |
Harriet Tubman | Conductor of an underground railroad |
Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln: 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves |
Cape May | a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean |
Underground Railroad | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |