SECTIONALISM, ABOLITION & CIVIL WAR - mastered

William Lloyd Garrison

Radical abolitionist who founded The Liberator in 1831 and demanded the immediate end of slavery.

Frederick Douglass

Former slave and leading African American abolitionist who spoke against slavery in the U.S. and Britain.

Harriet Tubman

Conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped enslaved people escape to freedom.

Sojourner Truth

Former slave who fought for abolition and women's rights.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that exposed the horrors of slavery and increased anti-slavery sentiment.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Leader of the women's rights movement and organizer of Seneca Falls Convention.

Lucretia Mott

Women's rights leader who helped organize Seneca Falls Convention.

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

First major women's rights convention in U.S. history.

Declaration of Sentiments

Document modeled after the Declaration of Independence demanding equal rights for women.

Civil War (1861-1865)

Conflict between the Union and Confederacy primarily over slavery and states' rights.

Lincoln's Main Goal

Preserve the Union.

Habeas Corpus Suspended

Lincoln allowed suspected Confederate spies to be jailed without immediate trial.

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Freed slaves in Confederate states and discouraged European support for the South