 | Term | Definition |
| |
Sectionalism |
a partiality for some particular place |
| |
Abraham Lincoln |
16 th president of The United Stetes |
| |
John Brown |
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) |
| |
Plantation |
garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth |
| |
Gettysburg |
Most decisive battle of the war |
| |
States Right |
the belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority |
| |
Robert e lee |
General of the Confederates (South) |
| |
Emancipation |
freeing someone from the control of another |
| |
Appomattox |
Site of Lee's surrender |
| |
Uncle Toms Cabin |
written by harriet beecher stower |
| |
Slavery |
the practice of owning slaves |
| |
Fugitive Slave |
a slave who fled; a runaway |
| |
Cotton gin |
a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers |
| |
Harriet Tubman |
Born into slavery feld north and helped with the underground rail road |
| |
Nullification |
rights of states to declare federal laws illegal |
| |
U S grant |
rights of states to declare federal laws illegal |
| |
Reconstrution |
the activity of constructing something again |
| |
Fort Sumter |
union fort in Charleston, South Carolina |
| |
Missouri Compromise |
Solves the slave-state free-state problem by admitting Maine and Missouri simultaneously |
| |
Abolition |
the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) |
| |
Dred scott |
United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state |
| |
Underground railroad |
abolitionists secret aid to escaping slaves |
| |
Frederick Douglas |
Escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader |
| |
Secession |
formal separation from an alliance or federation |
| |
Jefferson Davis |
American states man |
| |
Vicksburg |
a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863) |
| |
Freedom |
the condition of being free |
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace