Vocabulary
This term refers to someone who works to end slavery.
Abolitionist
This novel about slavery was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and inflamed tension between the north and south.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This man was president during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, this Vice President then becomes President.
Andrew Johnson
This woman was known as "Moses" for leading her people out of slavery.
Harriet Tubman
This term refers to states between the north and south that allowed slavery, but did not secede from the Union.
Border States
This law split the Louisiana Territory in two at the 36-parallel, making territory north of the line "free states" and south of the line "slave states".
Missouri Compromise
The Union army used this strategy to squeeze the Confederacy and suffocate them of their resources until they surrendered.
Anaconda Plan
This Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
This abolitionist taught himself to read and write, and after escaping slavery, became a presidential adviser.
Frederick Douglas
This term means to take back a law.
Repeal
This law repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing two territories to vote on their fate as a "free" or "slave" state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This was the deadliest battle of the American Civil, and also the "turning point" of the war.
Battle at Gettysburg
This Constitutional Amendment specifies that states cannot deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
Frederick Douglas published this famous paper as his platform for abolition.
The North Star
This term refers to the outcome of a Supreme Court case.
Decision
This major event was the "last straw", and provoked the secession of southern states from the Union.
Election of 1860 or Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln passed this law which aimed to free enslaved persons in the Confederacy in attempt to weaken it.
Emancipation Proclamation
This is the name for the group of Congressmen who had the most restrictive plan for reconstruction, including protections for African Americans.
Radical Republicans
This man led a rebellion on the plantation at which he was a slave.
Nat Turner
This term refers to a state's right to decide their own laws.
Popular Sovereignty
This supreme court outcome declared that enslaved persons were still considered slaves, even if they were in a "free state".
Dred Scott Decision
This town is known for the location of the Confederacy's surrender to the Union Army.
Appomattox, Virginia
President Hayes, who was elected after Andrew Johnson's term ended, ended reconstruction. This is the name for the Era that directly follows (name, not number).
Jim Crow Era.
A white man native to Massachusetts, this person was an active abolitionist and used his newspaper The Liberator to call on others to abolish slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison