Slavery & Civil War Vocabulary

Means to end or do away with something; This was a movement to end slavery and the slave trade.

• abolition

• blockade

• emancipation

• secession

Strategy used prevent people, supplies, and other material from leaving or entering somewhere.

• abolition

• blockade

• emancipation

• secession

Served as the 16th president of the United States. During his presidency the Civil War will break out and slavery will eventually be abolished.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• Jefferson Davis

Laws passed by Congress that resolved conflict between northern and southern states about slavery spreading into western states. There were 5 parts to this agreement.

• Compromise of 1850

• Civil War

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fugitive Slaw Laws

A group of states which lack a strong central government. A group of 11 southern states will leave the U.S. and be identified as this:

• Confederacy / Confederate States of America

• Juneteenth

• Free State

• Union

An invention that cleaned seeds out of cotton plants

• cotton gin

• cotton producer

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Sectionalism

Treating people unfairly because of their characteristics (race, age, nation of origin, religion). Often includes insults and slander, denying rights and privileges, hate crimes, and even genocide.

• discrimination

• emancipation

• secession

• slave state

An African American man whose status of freedom or enslavement was decided by the Supreme Court in 1857.

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• Jefferson Davis

The act of freeing someone from another's control.

• Emancipation

• Discrimination

• Juneteenth

• Secession

A statement made by Abraham Lincoln in which he said that all enslaved people in the Confederate States were free.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Laws

• Gettysburg Address