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Contents
Parent topics
- Slavery [r]: A social system in which people have legal rights of property ownership over others. [e]
- U.S. History [r]: The history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. [e]
- Black history [r]: A movement that developed out of the same forces that shaped the Civil Rights Movement. [e]
Subtopics
Related topics
- Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Born in Illinois, President of the United States during the American Civil War. [e]
- Jefferson Davis [r]: (1808-1889) Democratic Senator from Mississippi, Secretary of War, and president of the Confederate States of America. [e]
- John C. Calhoun [r]: (1782 – 1850) American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina; a strong advocate of southern state's rights and a defender of the institution of slavery. [e]
History
- Kansas Nebraska Act [r]: A U.S. Congressional Act of 1854 creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and allowing the settlers to decide whether or not to allow slavery. [e]
- Missouri Compromise [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Compromise of 1850 [r]: In U.S. history a series of laws intending to resolve pro-slavery/anti-slavery issues but yielded only greater conflict leading, eventually, to the U.S. Civil War. [e]
- Dred Scott v. Sandford [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Civil War [r]: Major war 1861-65 fought over slavery in which the U.S. defeated the secessionist Confederate States of America. [e]
- Emancipation Proclamation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution [r]: Add brief definition or description
Abolition movement
- Abolitionism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Underground railroad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Lloyd Garrison [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frederick Douglass [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Brown [r]: (1800-59) American abolitionist who led a raid on the U.S. federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was hanged for his efforts, becoming a martyr in the antislavery fight as a result. [e]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe [r]: (1811-96) American social reformer and novelist; wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. [e]
- Slave Power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Uncle Tom's Cabin [r]: 1851-52 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicting slave condtions in the American South. [e]
Post Civil War
- Reconstruction [r]: The attempt from 1865 to 1877 in American history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War. [e]
- Freedmen's Bureau [r]: Federal agency created in March 1865 to help distressed refugees, primarily freed slaves, of the American Civil War. [e]
- Jim Crow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ku Klux Klan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Civil Rights Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
