Slavery, Hayes Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, based on real people and events during slavery |
| Most Important Crop | Cotton |
| South | Had slaves, wealth came form farming, slave labor |
| North | Against slavery, farmers ran their own farms, wealth came from manufacturing, tractors |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Allowed settlers to choose for themselves whether or not to allow slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | Fighting broke out between those who favored slavery and those against slavery in Kansas |
| Posse | Group of citizens acting in the name of the law |
| Popular Sovereignty | The right of the people to vote on an issue |
| Dred Scott | A slave who tried to win his freedom in court |
| Dred Scott Decision | Declared that no black, free or slave, could claim the rights of U.S. citizen ship |
| Dred Scott was still a slave, and slaves were not under citizens | Why did the Supreme Court say Scott could not bring his suit to federal court? |
| Free-soilers | Opposed slavery, but did not demand for it to end only not to spread to new territories |
| John Brown | led an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia at Harper's Valley |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln elected President, South Carolina first state to leave the Union, 10 additional left the Union to form the Confederate States of America |
| 1861, April | First battle of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in Charleston South Carolina, |
| Harriet Tubman | Led slaves to freedom through Underground Railroad, Known as moses |
| Underground Railroad | Secret escape route to the North with "stations" |
| Stations | Secret homes of people who hid slaves during the day (churches included) |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave, taught to read and write by his masters wife, started anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star." Wrote book about his life, The Narrative of the Life of _________ |
| Henry "Box" Brown | Mailed himself to freedom in a box |
| Slave Catchers | People who made money catching escaped slaves |
| Abraham Lincoln | Elected president 1860, was not an abolitionist but a Free-Soiler, president during the Civil War, Wrote Emancipation Proclamation, Assassinated 5 days after General Lee surrendered to the north April 1865 |
| Fort Sumter | Shot began Civil War, Located on an island off Charleston, South Carolina, one of the few remaining federal strongholds |
| General Winfield Scott | Commander Union Army 1861 |
| Union | North |
| Confederacy | South |
| First Battle Civil War | Bull Run, July 1861, Confederacy won |
| Battle of Antietam | Lincoln ordered George McClellan Commander of Army to stop General Lee of the Union, located in Maryland, both armies met September 1862, General Lee withdrew to Virginia |
| Emancipation Proclamation | President Lincoln on July 1, 1863 announced all slaves were free |
| Proclamation | Official announcement |
| Greenbacks | Paper money issued by the federal government during Civil War |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Location in Pennsylvania, General George Pickett charged against the heart of the Union Army but failed, Union Won |
| Vicksburg | Important for Confederate control, General Ulysses S. Grant forced Confederate to surrender 1863 |
| General William Sherman | Union army, 100,00 soldiers, Captured Atlanta |
| Appomattox, Virginia | General Lee surrendered to General Grant April 1865 |
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