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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dred Scott | A born slave, who had been taken by his master into the free portion of the Louisiana Territory and when his master died he sued in Missouri for his freedom |
| Abraham Lincoln | The president during the Civil War, the writer of the Emancipation Proclamation, and was the first president to be assassinated |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The head general for the Union Army |
| Robert E. Lee | The head general for the Confederate Army |
| John Wilkes Booth | The assassinator of Abraham Lincoln |
| Eli Whitney | The inventor of the Cotton Gin |
| Harriet Tubman | The slave who escaped in 1849 via the Underground Railroad, after her arrival in Philadelphia she became an active participant in the network, going to the South many times to rescue other slaves, at one point their was a $40,000 reward for her capture. |
| Sojourner Truth | This slave took her infant son and escaped in 1828 and in 1843 she had a religious experience and changed her name |
| Grimke Sisters | Two sisters who were American feminists and social reformers who spent their lives working and leading in both the abolitionist and suffrage movements |
| William Wilberforce | Spent much of his life fighting to abolish slavery in the British Empire and then to emancipate existing slaves |
| John Brown | A abolitionist and anti-racist who led 21 other men to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, he was captured and hanged in 1859 |
| Nat Turner | A Negro Priest who led a rebellion |
| Stonewall Jackson | A Confederate Army General who had his arm amputated because of a friendly fire and died of pneumonia at Chancellorsville |
| Jefferson Davis | The president of the Confederate States (The states that succeeded from the Union) |
| General Sherman | Union General who wanted to cut through the heartland of the south to destroy anything of military value to the south in order to prove that the southern army could not protect their own land and therefore would be forced to surrender |
| Henry Clay | Senator from Kentucky who put together the Compromise of 1850 |
| Daniel Webster | A senator from Massachusetts who was in favor of the Compromise of 1850 |
| President Andrew Johnson | Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President, the 17th President of the United States, and the first United States President to be impeached on February 24, 1868 |
| John C. Calhoun | A senator from South Carolina who didn’t want to vote about the Mexican American war, foreseeing that the war would aggravate sectional strife |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Henry “Box” Brown | A slave that shipped himself in a box to Philadelphia |
| Yankees | Someone who lives in the northern states, especially New England |
| Dred Scott | A born slave, who had been taken by his master into the free portion of the Louisiana Territory and when his master died he sued in Missouri for his freedom |
| Abraham Lincoln | The president during the Civil War, the writer of the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The head general for the Union Army |
| Robert E. Lee | The head general for the Confederate Army |
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