Positions on Slavery, 1860
This group wanted slavery to continue forever.
Who are slave owners? (or Southern plantation owners)
The people, through writing, political organizing, and protests changed the mind of the people in the North about slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
These people strengthened the North by passing information to the Union Army.
Who are spies?
This figure usually gets most of the credit for ending slavery in traditional accounts.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The party of Abraham Lincoln
What is the Republican Party?
This group mostly was against slavery because they wanted land in the West to be for White farmers.
Who are free soilers?
These people, through their bravery in battle, convinced fellow soldiers that they were fully human.
Who are Black soldiers?
These people strengthened the North by fighting even though they received less pay.
Who are Black Union soldiers?
This version of history says that only powerful White men made history.
What is the Master Narrative?
The president of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This group wanted slavery to be made illegal immediately.
Who are abolitionists?
These people, by helping slaves escape, made it so that escaped slaves could write about the horrors of slavery.
Who are underground railroad conductors?
This executive action strengthened the North by giving the Civil War a moral purpose.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
It is when a person is treated by historians as an actor who made choices and changed history.
What is historical agency?
States that had slavery but stayed in the Union.
What are border states?
This candidate for President in 1860 was against slavery but thought the Constitution did not allow him to end it.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These people, by writing about their personal experiences, convinced many people of the evils of slavery
Who are escaped slaves?
This man weakened the South by stealing a Southern ship in order to escape slavery.
Who is Robert Smalls?
A kind of history that says that all kinds of people made history
What is inclusive history?
The national group that led the fight against slavery.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
This group did not care much about slavery. They just wanted to economy to keep making them rich.
Who are Northern business people?
These editors, by publishing The North Star, persuaded many people to join the abolitionist cause.
Who are Frederick Douglass and Martin Delaney?
This event weakened the South by taking away the Southern labor force.
What is slaves fleeing slavery?
A technique, drawn from oral cultures, used by historians for highlighting agency
What is storytelling?
The first state to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?