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AN ABC BOOK OF SLAVERY AND
EMANCIPATION
By: Ashton, Haley, Stella, and
Tyler
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A is for
Abolitionists
Abolitionist- people who wanted to abolish slavery, or end it
Abraham Lincoln was a famous abolitionist and he was also the
president of the United States
The goal of the abolitionist was the immediate emancipation of all
slaves of the end of racial discrimination and segregation
B is for
Black Codes
 Black Codes-laws that restricted the rights
of African Americans
 Under the lenient Reconstruction policies
of President Andrew Johnson, white
southerners reestablished civil authority in
the former Confederate. In 1865 and 1866,
they enacted a series over restrictive laws
known as “Black Codes”, which were
designed to restrict free blacks’ rights.
C is for
Cotton
 Cotton was the main cash crop in the south, it was often
referred to as “King Cotton”
 Most commonly used phrase describing the growth of
the American Economy in the 1830’s and 1840’s was
“Cotton is King”
D is for Fredrick Douglass
 Fredrick Douglass
was born into
slavery, after
escaping,
Douglass gave
speeches about
his early life. He
also published an
antislavery
newspaper called
The North Star
E is for The Emancipation
Proclamation
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Emancipation Proclamation- a
document that on January 1, 1863
that all enslaved people in the
Confederacy were emancipated, or
freed
 The Emancipation Proclamation did
not free all the slaves in the United
States, rather it declared free only
those slaves living in states under
Union control
F is for Free States
 Free statesstates in which
slavery is not
allowed
 An example of a
free state is
Maine
G is for General Ulysses S.
Grant
 General Ulysses
Grant born April 27th
1822 Point
Pleasant Ohio, he
died July 23rd
1885
H is for Harriet Tubman
 She was a spy , scout ,
and nurse for the Union
 Harriet Tubman was a
well-known conductor
for the underground
railroad ,and never lost
a passenger
 She was born a slave
I is for Ironclad
 Ironclad- an iron-
covered battle ship
 The Confederacy
built the first
ironclad ship, the
CSS Virginia,
formerly the USS
Merrimack
 To counter this new
threat, the Union
built the ironclad
the USS Monitor
J is for “Stonewall” Jackson
 General Thomas Jackson
was standing firm with
his troops. One
Confederate officer
shouted “There stands
Jackson like a stonewall!”
From that day forward
“Stonewall” Jackson
became a Confederate
hero
 Jackson died in the battle
of Chancellorsville in
1863
K is for the Ku Klux Klan
 The Ku Klux Klan was a clan that disguised in white
robes and hoods , they terrorized African Americans
with night raids.
 Ku Klux Klan- a group including many confederate
veterans founded the first branch of the KKK as a
social club in Pulaski, TN in 1867
L is for General Robert E
Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807-70)
served as a U.S. military
officer in the U.S. army
,a West Point
commandant and the
legendary general of the
Confederacy of the
American Civil War
(1861-1865)
M is for Malice
 Malice is the desire
to harm others
 Lincoln once said ,”
With malice toward
none , with charity
for all
N is for the “Hornet’s Nest”
 At one spot along a sunken road , bullets buzzed
through the air. The place became known as the
“Hornet’s Nest”
 This took place during the Battle of Shiloh
O is for Confederate
Officers
 A third of the nations officers joined the
confederate army, including Robert E. Lee ,
the most respected general in the Army.
P is for Anaconda PLan
 General Winfield
Scott , the
commander of the
Union Army , made a
plan to win the war .
This plan to win the
war. This plan would
make it more difficult
for the South to get
supplies it needed to
fight the war . he
called it the anaconda
plan.
Q is for Quartermasters
 Quartermaster-
the officer who
was responsible
for supplying
clothing ,
supplies and
f0od for the
troops
R is for Rose Greenhow
 She served as a
confederate spy
 Before being
caught , she
directed a group
of spies from her
home in
Washington , D.C
S is for General Sherman
 His name was William
Tecumseh Sherman
 He lead the union forces
in the west . Following
the anaconda plan , he
marched his troops
across Tennessee and
Georgia to squeeze the
south.
 He told his men to
destroy anything of
value to the enemy.
T is for The Gettysburg
address
 The Gettysburg
address is known as
one of the greatest
speeches in
American history.
 It was used to
dedicate a cemetery
for dead Union
soldiers.
U is for the Underground
Railroad
 Underground railroad-a system of tunnels , and river crossings that
lead to the north that slaves took to escape to the north.
 People who helped the slaves were called conductors .Escaped
slaves were called passengers . places where they could eat and
rest were called stations.
V is for Victory
 The victors of the civil war were the Union
 On April 9,1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
W is for Civil War
 The first shots of the Civil
War were fired at Fort
Sumter in Charleston,
South Carolina on April 12,
1861
 The last battle of the Civil
War was when Grant put a
ten month siege on
Petersburg which was a key
railroad center south of
Richmond
 Civil War-a war among
people who live in the same
country
X is for Xenophobia
 Xenophobia-A phobic attitude towards
strangers of the unknown
Y is for Yankees
• Yankees- a northerner during the civil war ,
often a term used by southerners
Z is for Zong (slave ship)
 One of the biggest cases in the history of
Atlantic slave trade brought out the issues of
carelessness and careless acts