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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 of America 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]
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Related topics
- Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Sixteenth U.S. President (from 1861 to 1865) who prosecuted the American Civil War to reclaim 11 seceding states and abolish slavery; assassinated in 1865 near the beginning of his second term. Considered the greatest of all American presidents. [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]: A U.S. law, passed in 1820 and in effect until 1854 (when the Kansas Nebraska Act overrode it), that balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the U.S. with those of southern states to expand slavery. [e]
- 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 American Civil War. [e]
- Dred Scott v. Sandford [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Civil War [r]: {1861-65) war by the U.S. to prevent 11 of its states (the Confederate States of America) from seceding; won by the U.S. after the death of 600,000 people and the abolishment of slavery. [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]