Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
Anaconda Plan
Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy
Compromise of 1850
Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's speech to honor fallen soldiers
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Sectionalism
Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
Vicksburg
Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.
Slavery
A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Bleeding Kansas
(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.
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
A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
Emancipation Proclamation
Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.