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Jefferson Davis was a 19th century U.S. senator best known as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

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A political or religious organization.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.

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Democrat in the north and south were split over the issue of slavery. 

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Democrat in the north and south were split over the issue of slavery. 

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Favoring a conservative stance, limited central government, and a strong national defense.

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A short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.

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Sojourner Truth is best known for her extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.

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A american social reformer and women's rights advocate who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

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United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War.

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United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education.

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an antislavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Congress passed the Kansas Nebraska Act.

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Revealed that some southerners opposed slavery.

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an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

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He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War.

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To end slavery.

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Existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War

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A unsuccessful raid on a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, VA in an attempt to free slaves in a massive slave uprising.

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Sued for hid freedom after traveling with his master from Missouri to Wisconsin.

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A law to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.

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A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.

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government is subject to the will of the people.

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A political or religious organization.

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A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

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A region than with the problems and interests of the larger group, country.

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A machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds.