Unit 2 Study Link

Freedom Seeker

• background or setting, "The big picture"

• a person who decided to leave their enslavement to find freedom somewhere else, some use the Underground Railroad to leave their enslavers.

• a conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of enslavement and the expansion of enslavement into new western states. lasted from 1861-1865, the Union wond the war.

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

context

• background or setting, "The big picture"

• a person who decided to leave their enslavement to find freedom somewhere else, some use the Underground Railroad to leave their enslavers.

• a conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of enslavement and the expansion of enslavement into new western states. lasted from 1861-1865, the Union wond the war.

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

Civil War

• background or setting, "The big picture"

• a person who decided to leave their enslavement to find freedom somewhere else, some use the Underground Railroad to leave their enslavers.

• a conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of enslavement and the expansion of enslavement into new western states. lasted from 1861-1865, the Union wond the war.

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

Union

• the states that remained with the United States before the Civil War, led by President Abraham Lincoln, fought against the Confederacy during the Civil War, mostly northern "free states"

• the states that broke away from the United States before the Civil War, fought against the Union during the Civil War, mostly southern "slave states"

• a conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of enslavement and the expansion of enslavement into new western states. lasted from 1861-1865, the Union wond the war.

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

abolitionist

• background or setting, "The big picture"

• a person who decided to leave their enslavement to find freedom somewhere else, some use the Underground Railroad to leave their enslavers.

• a conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of enslavement and the expansion of enslavement into new western states. lasted from 1861-1865, the Union wond the war.

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

Confederacy

• the states that broke away from the United States before the Civil War, fought against the Union during the Civil War, mostly southern "slave states"

• the states that remained with the United States before the Civil War, led by President Abraham Lincoln, fought against the Confederacy during the Civil War, mostly northern "free states"

• a conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of enslavement and the expansion of enslavement into new western states. lasted from 1861-1865, the Union wond the war.

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

enslavement

• the states that broke away from the United States before the Civil War, fought against the Union during the Civil War, mostly southern "slave states"

• the states that remained with the United States before the Civil War, led by President Abraham Lincoln, fought against the Confederacy during the Civil War, mostly northern "free states"

• often called "Slavery," a system in which human beings are considered the property of other human beings

• a person who believed that enslavement should be ended

corroboration

• federal law that allowed Freedom Seekers to be arrested and returned to their enslavers, also made it illegal to help Freedom Seekers

• comparing and contrasting different sources in order to tell accurate stories about the past

• to support or encourage

• the process of abolishing slavery over a number of years

gradual emancipation

• federal law that allowed Freedom Seekers to be arrested and returned to their enslavers, also made it illegal to help Freedom Seekers

• comparing and contrasting different sources in order to tell accurate stories about the past

• to support or encourage

• the process of abolishing slavery over a number of years

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

• federal law that allowed Freedom Seekers to be arrested and returned to their enslavers, also made it illegal to help Freedom Seekers

• comparing and contrasting different sources in order to tell accurate stories about the past

• to support or encourage

• the process of abolishing slavery over a number of years