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| California becomes a free state, popular sovereignty decides which new states will become slave or free. |
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| Barred slavery from territories obtained during the Mexican-American War. |
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| The vote of the local people's majority to decide the outcome of policy. |
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| Ran against Lincoln in the 1860 election, Nothern Democrat. |
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| Allowed fugitive slaves in the North to be captured and brought back into the South. |
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| Network of People and resources that allowed slaves to escape North through organized and hidden routes. |
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| Former slave who made expeditions back into the south to rescue other slaves. |
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| Antislavery writer who was very influential in rallying support against slavery. |
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| Book depicting life as a slave, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
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| Allowed the states of Kansas and Nebraska to become states and decide the allowacne of slavery by popular sovereignty. |
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| Violent Abolitionist who led a fail slavery uprising and was subsequently hanged in Virginia. |
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| Sequence of Violent events between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces residing in Kansas |
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| Favoring the interests of native peoples over that of immigrants and non-natives. |
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| Short lived political party supporting Nativist beliefs |
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| Political Party with the belief that all new states added to the U.S. should be free. |
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| Presidential Candidate that was a liberal republican and writter of influential newspaper. |
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| 15th U.S. president, Democrat. |
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| Sued former slave holder for his freedom, Sanford, and failed. |
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| Influential Supreme court justice in the Dred Scott case outcome |
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| 16th President of the U.S., led the Union during Civil War. |
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| Doctrine by Stephen Douglas stating that slavery could be excluding from terriories in the U.S. by local legislation. |
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| Place at which John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal. Fail. |
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| The name given to the southern states that seceeded from the Union. |
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| The only president of the Confederate States of America. |
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| Located at Charleston, SC. Cite of the spark of the Civil War. |
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| Union strategy of blocking Southern trade, thereby starving the Confederacy of supplies to conduct War. |
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| Site of 2 Confederate battle victories. |
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| Brilliant Confederate General, lost life to friendly fire. |
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| Failure of a General,fired by Abraham Lincoln after Antietam. |
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| Successful Union General who's tactics won the war for the North. |
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| 2 day battle between Union and Confederate armies, led to multiple Union victories. |
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| Union naval officer with Decisive victories for the Union in Alabama. |
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| First battle of Ironclad warships, neither won, and both were sunk in 1862. |
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| Brilliant Confederate General of the Army of Northern Virginia, gave south its greatest chance at ultimate victory. |
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| Bloodiest Civil war battle. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Declared all slaves to be free by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, didn't reach some southern places until the end of the war. |
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| Fort along the Mississippi river that was controlled by the Union for most of the War. Battle there was a slaughtering win for the Confederates in 1864. |
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| Notorious Confederate Prison in Georgia, deathplace of 12000 union soldiers. |
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| Founder of the Red Cross after seeing horrendus nursing conditions during the Civil War. |
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| Site of Confederate Victory in Virginia, Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded. |
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| City besieged and taken by Union during the Civil War by Ulysses S Grant. |
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| Short address given by Lincoln following the battle of Gettysburg expressing sorrow and hope for the end of the Civil War. |
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| Union general who led his famous and destructive march to the Sea. |
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| Slavery is officially made illegal. |
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| Medical and Relief organization founded during the civil war. |
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| Assasinator of Abraham Lincoln. |
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| The Hated by All president after Lincoln, a Southerner. |
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| Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. |
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| Nothern Republicans who wanted the South to be punished for its involvment in the Civil War. |
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| Site of the end negotiations of the Civil War. |
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| Bill passed by Congress to support stronger restrictions on southern states being readmitted into the Union. |
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| Founded by congress during the Reconstruction to ease the transition of Southern Blacks from slavery to freedom. |
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| Codes that were founded in order to establish white supremacy in the South. |
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| Stated that former slaves could obtain citizenship. |
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| People of Any race can vote. |
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| Southern whites who supported the reconstruction after the Civil War. |
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| Northerners who moved South during the reconstruction Era. |
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| First African Amercian to serve in the U.S. Senate. |
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| Situation in which a landowner allows a tennant to tend his land in return for a certain share of the crop it produces. |
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| Farmer who worked for a sharecropper, often blacks during the reconstruction. |
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| Ku Klux Klan. Enough said. |
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| Economic Depression in Europe and the United States in 1873 due to lack of Demand for Silver. |
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| 19th president of the U.S., Oversaw reconstruction. |
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| Democratic Candidate for U.S. election, lost. |
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| Democratic Candidate for U.S. election, lost. |
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| Corrupt Bargain in which Hayes became president in return for Southern benefits. |
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| States rights to govern their local territory |
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