1. Indiana grows

2. An end to slavery in all states

3. abolition

4. A large farm in the South where many slaves worked

5. plantation

6. The system of secret routes for enslaved African Americans escaping the South

7. The Underground Railroad

8. To break away from a nation or organization

9. secede

10. A war that is fought among people in the same country; the north and south fought against each other

11. Civil war

12. The name the seceded Southern states called themselves

13. Confederacy

14. The name the Northern states were referred to

15. Union

16. The period following the Civil War in which the United States Congress passed laws that would help rebuild the country

17. reconstruction

18. Many African Americans experienced this unfair treatment before and after the war

19. discrimination

20. Being able to provide for almost all one’s own needs

21. Self-sufficient

22. A horse-drawn machine that cut and bundled grain

23. reaper

24. All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service

25. industry

26. A group of workers who demand better working conditions

27. Labor union

28. To refuse to work until working conditions improve

29. strike