Abolition Movement
This is a word for a person who fought for the end of slavery in the United States in the 1800s
Abolitionist
This white abolitionist sought an immediate end to slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
This man was President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery was most widespread in this section of the United States
The South
Abraham Lincoln issued this, freeing all slaves in territories rebelling against the United States
The Emancipation Proclamation
This was a network of secret routes and safe houses organized by abolitionists to help enslaved people reach freedom in the north
The Underground Railroad
This man was one of the most prominent abolitionists of the 1800s and the most well-known African American abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
This word means "to formally leave" and describes what the Southern states did to start the Civil War
Secede
Before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, this side had lost a majority of the battles of the Civil War
The North/The Union
According to the United States Constitution, enslaved people were counted as this fraction of a person for the sake of representation in congress
3/5
This was the name of an act that required Northerners to return escaped slaves back to the South
The Fugitive Slave Act
This society wanted to free enslaved African Americans and send them out of the country
American Colonization Society
This man was the most important general for the Union during the Civil War
Ulysses S Grant
The Confederate States of America
This enslaved man led a violent rebellion against slave-owning whites in Virginia
Nat Turner
This novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe enlightened the public in the north about some of horrors of life under slavery and enraged planters in the South
Uncle Tom's Cabin
These two sisters came from a slave-holding family in South Carolina and became abolitionists
The Grimke Sisters
This side in the Civil War had fewer military colleges but more factories for weapons production
This side during the Civil War had the advantage of understanding the territory on which they were fighting better than their opponents
The South/Confederacy
This enslaved man sued for his freedom in a case in which the Supreme Court eventually ruled that Black people were not citizens, and therefore had no right to sue
Dred Scott
Two sisters from South Carolina did this to help in the fight against slavery
Bought and freed slaves
This was a newspaper founded by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
This was one reason Lincoln decided to Emancipate Slaves
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This was one reason Lincoln decided to Emancipate Slaves
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These two men were the President and General of the states which left the Union