social studies lesson 1 and 2 part 2

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 supported the Federal Government.

Frederick Douglas

A former slave and fiery orator against slavery.

Dred Scott

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

Debated 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 Purpose

Fought mainly to save the Union.

First state to secede

South Carolina.

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 in 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

A newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison devoted to the elimination of slavery.

Sequence of Events

Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott ruling, John Brown’s Raid, South Carolina secedes.

Confederate States

Included South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia.

Union States

Included Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania.

Emancipation Proclamation

Made slavery one of the purposes of the Civil War.

Missouri Compromise Result

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

Dred Scott Ruling

Upheld the constitutionality of slavery.

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.