Slavery - The topic Thomas Jefferson included in the Declaration of Independence but had to remove, Cotton gin - The invention that caused the slave trade in the South to explode, Missouri - The slave state that came in with Maine (free state) to keep Congress balanced, Kansas - Huge numbers of pro and anti-slavery settlers rushed here to sway the vote in their favor, Abraham Lincoln - The first leader of the new Republican party in 1854, Preston Brooks - The South Carolina Representative who used his cane to attack Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, Dred Scott - The 1857 court case that ruled all people of African descent, slave or free, could not be citizens, Economic - Many whites in the North were against slavery for _______ reasons because they didn’t want Southern planters to take their land, Moral - Abraham Lincoln was against slavery for _________ reasons. He said that a house divided against itself cannot stand., John Brown - He seized weapons from the Harper's Ferry armory to start a major slave uprising in the South, Fort Sumter - Where the Confederates attacked first, starting the Civil War, Frederick Douglass - He wanted President Lincoln to enlist black men in the Union army, George McClellan - This Union general did not respect Lincoln and refused to fight when he didn’t want to, Robert E. Lee - By 1862, this general was now leading the Confederate Army, Antietam - Union soldiers found Lee’s plans and the two armies fought this battle, the single bloodiest day in American history, Emancipation Proclamation - After a Union victory, Lincoln announced this plan to free slaves in the Confederate states,

OverSimplified Civil War, Part 1

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