Matching Pairs The Harlem Renaissance Online version Match the following people and places with the definitions below. by Franterria Mayer 1 Abraham Lincoln 2 The Nile 3 The Congo 4 The Euphrates 5 New Orleans 6 The Mississippi The longest river in the world. It flows north from Uganda in East Africa through Sudan and Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea. A river in southwest Asia. It flows from eastern Turkey south through Iraq. It joins the Tigris River in a valley where some of the most ancient civilizations were located. The sixteenth president of the United States (1861–1865), who was commander in chief of the Union troops during the American Civil War and who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, thus bringing an end to slavery in the United States (b.1809–d.1865). A port city (where ships load and unload) in Louisiana, in the United States. The longest river in the United States. It flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico A riverof Central Africa flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, also known as the Zaire River.