The Civil War

compromise

fugitive

slavery

rebellion

abolition

repeal

arsenal

telegraph

secede

opposition

confederate

rebel

union

Yankee

emancipation

a way to settle an argument when both sides give a little to get a part of what they want

running away or fleeing, as from the law

the state of one bound in servitude as the property of a household

defiance toward an authority

act of doing away with

to revoke, recall, or reverse

governmental establishment for the storing war materials

communications system that transmits and receives simple unmodulated electric impulses

withdraw formally from membership in an organization

being in conflict

to band together

oppose by force an established government

the United States of America regarded as a national unit

inhabitant of a northern U.S. state

act of setting free from the power