Book 2 WW2

Abraham Lincoln

President when the Civil War started.

Harriet Tubman

Led more than 300 slaves through the Underground Railroad.

Lucretia Mott

A Quaker minister and abolitionist who spoke at the American Anti Slavery Society.

Sam Houston

Texas governor who was a strong supporter of the Federal Government.

Frederick Douglass

A former slave and fiery orator against slavery.

Dred Scott

He did not obtain his freedom because he was considered a slave and property.

Millard Fillmore

President who signed the Missouri Compromise of 1859 into law.

Nat Turner

Led a slave rebellion against Virginia plantation owners.

Franklin Pierce

President who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 into law.

John Brown

An abolitionist who conducted a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

James Buchanan

President who believed slavery was protected by the Constitution.

Stephen Douglas

Had a series of debates with Lincoln and was a presidential nominee.

Robert E. Lee

Put down the rebellion that took place at Harper’s Ferry.

Roger Taney

Slaveholding Chief Justice who wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case.

Jefferson Davis

Elected the President of the Confederate States of America.

Civil War

Fought mainly to save the Union.

South Carolina

The first state to secede from the Union.

Corwin Amendment

A compromise amendment.

Conscription

The drafting of men into the Army.

Wilmot Proviso

Prohibited slavery in new western land.

Cash Crops

Cotton and tobacco were the most important for the Southern economy.

Fort Sumter

Location where the Civil War started.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, describing brutal slave conditions.

Abolitionists

People who opposed slavery.

The Liberator

Founded by William Lloyd Garrison; a newspaper devoted to elimination of slavery.

Bleeding Kansas

A sequence of events before the Civil War.

Dred Scott Ruling

A significant legal ruling regarding slavery.

John Brown’s Raid

An abolitionist attack on Harpers Ferry.

Emancipation Proclamation

Made slavery one of the purposes of the Civil War.

Missouri Compromise

Missouri admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Antebellum Period

Era between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War.

Anaconda Plan

Campaign to squeeze the economic life out of the Confederacy.