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| No Mexican territory could have slaves. |
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| Series of measures passed by the U.S. Congress to settle slavery issues and avert secession. |
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| Political doctrine that allowed the settlers of U.S. federal territories to decide whether to enter the Union as free or slave states. |
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| Northern democratic nominee for president in 1860. |
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| U.S. laws of 1793 and 1850 (repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves. |
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| system that helped black slaves escape to freedom was fast and powerful, earning the name Underground Railroad. |
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| Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of American slaves escape along the secret route to freedom known as the Underground Railroad. |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American reformer and writer whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a classic of 19th century anti-slavery literature. |
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| an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in book form in 1852. |
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| Legislation that organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska according to the doctrine of popular sovereignty. |
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| Led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas. |
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| Period of civil unrest (1854 – 59) between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new Kansas Territory. |
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| Favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. |
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| Officially known as the American Party, it actually emerged from secret societies opposed to immigrants coming to America. |
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| Short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. |
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| American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. |
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| 15th President of the United States. The only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century. |
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| African-American slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. |
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| Fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. |
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| 16th President of the United States. He led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis — the American Civil War — preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. |
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| Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation. |
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| The battle of Harpers Ferry, had an arsenal. |
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| An alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose. |
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| (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President for its entire history. |
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The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter. |
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| The Anaconda Plan is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. |
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First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas. It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War. |
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| Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824[2] – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee. |
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| Major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. |
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| 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. |
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| also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. |
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| Flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War |
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| The Battle of Hampton Roads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. |
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| Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. |
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| Fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. |
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| Emancipitation Proclamation |
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| Fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. |
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| compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. |
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| known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864 |
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| officially known as Camp Sumter, served as a Confederate Prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. |
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| was a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross. |
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| he Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War. |
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| was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. |
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| speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history.[1] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War. |
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| an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War |
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| was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army |
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| officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. |
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| also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. |
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| an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. |
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| 17th President of the United States. |
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| battles between the president and Congress |
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| loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) |
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| 1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans |
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| U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. |
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| e laws put in place in the United States after the Civil War with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks |
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| broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court (1857) that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States. |
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| prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| scalawag was a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War. |
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| Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. |
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| Was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate |
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| ystem of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land |
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| one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord. |
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| informally known as the Ku Klux Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right[6][7][8][9] organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration. |
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| triggered a severe international economic depression in both Europe and the United States that lasted until 1879, and even longer in some countries |
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| 19th President of the United States |
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| was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876 |
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| refers to a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction |
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| power of a constituent part (administrative division) of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been devolved to it by the central government. |
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