VUS.6g, 7a,b,c Vocabulary

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass

16th President, POTUS during Civil War, insisted that the U.S. would be held together by force if necessary.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

U.S. Senator who became President of the CSA

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Union military general, won victories over South after several failures by Union generals.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Confederate military commander who urged Southerners to accept defeat and unite as Americans.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S Grant

Former enslaved African American who became a prominent abolitionist and urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved African Americans to fight in the Union Army.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

An anti-slavery novel, depicted horrors of slavery, fueled the abolitionist cause in the 1850’s.

• Contraband of War

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Supreme Court ruling that those of African descent brought to the U.S. were not protected under the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.

• Dred Scott case

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Secession

The act of a state or states withdrawing from the United States.

• Confederate States of America

• Nullification

• Contraband

• Secession

Founded in the Northern U.S. in the 1850’s as an anti-slavery party, Lincoln was first Republican President.

• Democratic-Republican Party

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

• Know Nothing Party