Throughout this course you will encounter many historical figures, important events, ideas and concepts. You should be able to identify and give the historical significane of the key people, events, and concepts listed below.
These key terms are drawn from lectures and from the textbook. These terms will be covered on the Unit 2 exam.
|
|
 People
Organizations
Events
|
Concepts
Laws & Court Cases
Books & Publications |
|
PEOPLE
Frederick Douglass
George Fitzhugh
Fanny Kemble
Celia
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
Abby Kelley
Robert Owen
Horace Mann
William Lloyd Garrison
John Brown
Jefferson Davis
|
|
ORGANIZATIONS
Underground railroad
Shakers
Oneida
Brook Farm
New Harmony
Transcendentalists
common schools
American Colonization Society
Free Soil Party
Republican Party
Freedman's Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
|
|
EVENTS
Amistad slave revolt
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls Convention
Mexican War
"Bleeding" Kansas
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Gettysburg Address
Civil War draft riots
Lincoln's Ten-percent Plan
|
|
CONCEPTS
paternalism or paternalist ethos
gang labor system
task labor system
silent sabotage
utopian communities
Gospel of Freedom
abolitionism
manifest destiny
free labor ideology
popular sovereignty
secession
contrabands
sharecropping
|
|
LAWS AND COURT CASES
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Bargain of 1877
|
|
BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
|
BACK TO STUDY GUIDE |
