History

13th Amendment

Ratified in December of 1865 (after Abe's assassination) this abolishes slavery forever in the united states

Stephen A. Douglass

Senator from Illinois, Wants to be president of the United States, on the southern side. He views freedom in local self government and self determination.

Henry Clay

Senator from Kentucky (slave state) he says taking slaves out to mexico is not worth the entire union splitting. Seeks for compromise

Runaways

Slaves who ran away from their southern plantations to join up with union forces. Were categorized as property to be returned under the fugitive slave law until General Benjamin Butler described them as contraband so that he didn't have to return them to the very thing he was fighting for

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure in the women's movement. She presented her Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca falls convention.

Manifest Destiny

This idea that America is gods land and deserves to spread on each side until it reaches the oceans. Led to the continental railroad being built that connected the east and the west.

William Lloyd Garrison

Editor of the abolitionist paper , the liberator. One of the founders of the American anti slavery foundation and was a helping hand in the women's rights movement

Missouri compromise

1820, regulated slavery in western territories. Was repealed by the Kansas - Nebraska act.

Turner rebellion

1831, Virginia, Nat turner (a slave) led a rebellion and killed around 60 men, women, and children. They were later executed in public.

Elijah P. Lovejoy

1837, in Alton Illinois, Elijah p. Lovejoy (a journalist for the Alton Observer) gets murdered by a mob in this slave free state. The first time white American men kill another white American man over the issue of slavery.

John Brown

1859, After hearing about Elijah B . Lovejoy, takes an oath to destroy slavery through violence. Him and his sons hack 5 white men to death in Kansas. In 1859 he attacks the federal armery in harpers ferry Virginia and takes it over. 7 people are killed and his plan to pass out weapons to revolting slaves doesn't work and the united states government sends Robert E. Lee to end it. Late John Brown is publicly executed

Seneca Falls Convention

1st convention to elevate to status of women. 1848.

Underground Railroad

Abolitionists constructed a network of safe houses and secrete routs to help slaves escape to free places like Canada.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American Abolitionist and author in the 19th century. Author of Uncle toms Cabin

Juneteenth

Commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in texas in 1865. Celebrated on June 19th.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Douglas says that Lincoln wants to take rights away from white americans and give it to the Africans, he says Lincoln is not one of us. Lincoln says that the negro is my equal, and the equal of every living man, and that a man should be paid for what he rightly earns.

Compromise of 1850

Drafted by henry clay, Kept the south and north from having a civil war at the time. The 35 degree north parallel separated south and north in California. The south gained more strict enforcement of the fugitive slave law from northerners

Cotton

Due to the overwhelming southern support and usage of slavery, cotton in the south was mass produced and earned them money. When the civil war began, the union resources outweighed that of the confederacy in every category except for cotton. The south had a ridiculous amount of cotton.

John C. Calhoun

From South Carolina, Says it is the norths fault for not letting the south do what they want and it is the norths fault that the south is seceding

Mrs. Auld

In Fredrick Douglass's novel, the wife of one of his slave holders, who's tender cradle for humanity and simple kindness fell victim to the power of one person over another (slavery)

Contraband

In the Civil War, Lincoln mandated the enforcement of the fugitive slave law, which meant that all run away slaves that met up with the union forces were to be returned. General Benjamin Butler disagrees with this so he cleverly defines these run away slaves as (Contraband - property of military value subject to confiscation) General Benjamin Butler created contraband camps and schools to teach these slaves how to read and write

Border States

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware. These states were necessary to lincolns movement. They were all the slave states who did not join the confederation. They served as an example as well as strategic positions. They were the strategic buffer between the union and the confederacy. Shows the confederacy that they didn't have to succeed.

Genesis 9:20-27

The bible verse that Southerners used to justify slavery. Noah gets really drunk and is but naked and when his son laughs at him, he banishes him and his family to be the servant and slave of his brothers and their families. This would have to mean that one of noahs son was black which had to mean noah slept with a black women.

Columbian Orator

The book that Fredrick douglass secretly used to teach himself how to read

United States v. Amistad

United states supreme court case resulting from the illegal slave trade of African americans where the slaves revolted and took over the ship and captured off the coast of new york. The question was whether the slaves should be freed now or returned to their owners. The slaves were not returned because the supreme court ruled it not necessary

Alexander Stephens

Vice president of the confederacy, lays out reasons for their succession : Slavery is right and the united states constitution was wrong.

Bleeding Kansas

When Kansas calls a vote for a free or slave state, Missouri people move to Kansas to vote for slave state by the thousands. At the same time, people from main, Vermont, new york, move out to Kansas to vote for it to be a free state. Twice as many votes were cast than the population of Kansas. It was voted to be a slave state so Lincoln set up an anti slavery camp to stop it, creating bloodshed where white Americans are killing white Americans over the issue of slavery.

Sociology for the south

Written by George Fitzhugh's. Basically describes how he believes society is failing and that slavery is right and justified by god. Completely pro slavery.

Fugitive slave law

passed in 1850, part of the compromise of 1850, required that all runaway slaves be returned to their owners. North had to follow these rules but some of them didn't. Lincoln enforced this during the civil war.

Emancipation Proclamation

was issued September 22, 1862 to go into effect January 1st 1863. Lincoln issued this as a fit and necessary war measure and to prove to the south that they could not just secede and make up their own rules.