Key Terms: Slavery and The US Civil War

Slavery:

• Southern Economy - "King Cotton"
  
• Slave Trade – African, Indigenous, and New World; Triangular Trade
• Cotton Gin
  
• Abolitionism
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
  

Events Leading to the Civil War:

• Louisiana Purchase
  
• Lincoln-Douglas debates
• Nat Turner’s Rebellion
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850 - Fugitive Slave Law and California
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Kansas-Nebraska bill
• “Bleeding Kansas”
• Dred Scott
• John Brown\Harper’s Ferry

The Civil War:

• Secession
• Ft. Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Frederick Douglass
• Union
• Confederacy
• Bull Run/Manassas
• New Technologies
• Antietam
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg
• Gettysburg Address
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Total War – Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Appomattox
• John Wilkes Booth - Assassination of Lincoln