Before the civil war that was a period of Antebellum
Mason-Dixon line
I live near the Mason-Dixon line
Abolitionist
I hate slavery and I side with the Abolitionists
A term often used to describe the time period in the United States of America before the outbreak of the Civil war.
Emancipation
As an abolitionist I believe in Emancipation
A boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and (West) Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states.
Cash Crop
Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
Border States
Freedom from slavery.
A crop such as tobacco or cotton which was grown to be sold for cash - not grown for food like corn or wheat.
I Don't need this food, I only want the money
The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.