Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
Anaconda Plan
Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
Compromise of 1850
Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories
Gettysburg Address
(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
Sectionalism: The South
Largely agricultural, mostly cotton from 1830-1850.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Captured by the North in 1863, effectively split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
Slavery in Africa
went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of the Europeans.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, Douglass became the best-known abolitionist speaker. He edited an anti-slavery weekly, the North Star and lectured with William Lloyd Garrison until they parted company on issues of prejudice in the North and secession of the South.
Bleeding Kansas
Term referring to bloodshed over popular sovereignty in a particular western territory
Missouri Compromise
an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
Abolitionist Movement
the movement concentrated on ending slavery in the United States
The Emancipation Proclamation freed
enslaved people living in areas controlled by the Confederacy