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Immediate abolitionist newspaper

The Liberator

Former enslaved abolitionist who wrote a famous Narrative

Frederick Douglass

Book by Frederick Douglass about slavery

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Radical abolitionist who published The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist who wrote An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

David Walker

Abolitionist and women’s rights speaker formerly enslaved

Sojourner Truth

Major organized abolitionist group

American Anti-Slavery Society

Congressional rule tabling antislavery petitions

Gag Resolution

Proposed sending free Black Americans to Africa

American Colonization Society

African colony associated with colonization movement

Liberia

Famous slave rebellion in Virginia

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Ship revolt involving enslaved Africans

Amistad

Proposed ban on slavery in Mexican Cession

Wilmot Proviso

Antislavery party opposing slavery expansion

Free Soil Party

Voters decide slavery in territories

Popular sovereignty

California free state plus stronger Fugitive Slave Law

Compromise of 1850

Law requiring return of escaped enslaved people

Fugitive Slave Law

Secret network helping enslaved people escape

Underground Railroad

Most famous Underground Railroad conductor

Harriet Tubman

Novel that intensified antislavery feeling

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Plan to buy or seize Cuba

Ostend Manifesto

Repealed Missouri Compromise line through popular sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Violence over slavery in Kansas

Bleeding Kansas

Proslavery Kansas constitution

Lecompton Constitution

Enslaved people not citizens and Congress cannot ban slavery in territories

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Chief justice in Dred Scott case

Roger B. Taney

Douglas’s answer that territories could block slavery despite Dred Scott

Freeport Doctrine

Lincoln-Douglas debate question about slavery in territories

Freeport Question

John Brown’s raid location

Harpers Ferry

Failed last compromise before Civil War

Crittenden Amendments

Southern radicals pushing secession

Fire-eaters

Political party trying to avoid sectional conflict in 1860

Constitutional Union Party

Southern government formed after secession

Confederate States of America

Civil War begins here

Fort Sumter

Slave states that stayed in the Union

Border States

State created from anti-Confederate Virginia counties

West Virginia

Lincoln suspended this during Civil War

Writ of habeas corpus

British ship incident with Confederate diplomats

Trent Affair

Confederate commerce raider built by Britain

Alabama

British-built ships stopped by Union diplomacy

Laird rams

Northern antiwar Democrats

Copperheads

Lincoln’s 1864 party label

Union Party

First major Civil War battle

Bull Run

Union attempt to capture Richmond by water route

Peninsula Campaign

Bloodiest day of the Civil War

Antietam

Proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebelling states

Emancipation Proclamation

Amendment abolishing slavery

Thirteenth Amendment

Turning point battle in the East

Gettysburg

Lincoln speech honoring Union dead

Gettysburg Address

Union victory giving control of Mississippi River

Vicksburg

Sherman’s destructive campaign through Georgia

Sherman’s March

Grant’s brutal 1864 campaign against Lee

Wilderness Campaign

Lee surrendered here

Appomattox Courthouse

Confederate president

Jefferson Davis

Main Confederate general

Robert E. Lee

Main Union general who accepted Lee’s surrender

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general famous for March to the Sea

William Tecumseh Sherman

Lincoln’s assassin

John Wilkes Booth