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Would have made ex-mexican lands free states |
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| A series of five bills presented by Henry Clay meant to stave off sectional strife. (prevent civil war) |
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| The people in the state get to choose whether they are "slave" or "free". |
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| Lost Election to Abraham Lincoln. Considered a "Giant" in Politics. |
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| Escaped slaves (even in the north) must be returned to their masters. Part of the Compromise of 1850. |
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| A series of people who helped slaves escape to the north. (Harriet Tubman was a big part) |
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| Led slaves (about 70) to freedom by the underground railroad. Also worked for the union. |
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| Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portrayed slave-life realisticly. |
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| Created the territories Kansas and Nebraska and allowed them to vote for slave or free. |
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| Violent Revolutionary Abolitionist |
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| 1854-1858 A series of violent anti-slavery acts in the kansas territory. |
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| The belief that people born of the original american pilgrims should be treated better than immigrants. |
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| 1845-1860 Nativist party whose members were told to say I know nothing when asked of their party's activities. |
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| 1848-1854 A short lived anti-slavery party whose members likely became a part of the republican party. |
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| Famous for his abolitionist newspaper called the New York Tribune. The only presidential candidte to have died before votes were counted. |
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| The 15th President. The only president from pennsylvania, the only to be a lifelong bachelor, and the last to be born in the 18th century (1700's). |
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| A slave whose master treated him with many liberties, but the master's widow would not let him purchase his freedom. Part of an important cout case deciding that those born of African descent were not american citizens (Scott vs. Sanford) |
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| 5th Chief Justice owned slaves who he manumitted. Delivered the ruling of the Dred Scott case. |
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| Republican elected in 1860. His election started the civil war and he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. |
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| The Freeport Doctrine was Stephen Douglas's answer to Lincoln's question, in which he explained that slavery could only exist where there was a slave code. If a state did not pass laws to protect slavery, they couldn't have it. |
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| John Brown's plan to seize the federal armory and start a huge slave revolt. He was caught by Robert E. Lee and hanged. |
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| A confederacy of 11 states which seceeded from the union after Lincoln's election between 1861 and 1865. |
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| President of the Confederacy. |
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| First Battle of the Civil War. South Won. |
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| An outline stratagey for beating the Confederacy by blockading them. Proposed by Winfrield Scott. |
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| Bull Run (Manassas in Virginia) |
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| Second battle of the Civil War. South Won. |
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| Confederate General. Accidently shot and killed by own troops. |
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| Major General under the union. Organized the Army of the Potomac |
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| Major Union General defeated Robert E. Lee and became 18th president in 1869. |
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| Shiloh (Pittsburgh landing |
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| Union won this battle under Ulysses S. Grant. Suprise attack by confederates. |
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| First admiral in the Navy and flag officer. worked for union. |
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| Most important naval battle of civil war. |
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| Best General of the Confederacy. |
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| Bloodiest battle of civil war. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| freed the slaves without citizenship. |
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| Black union troops were massacred after surrendering |
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| site of a prisoner of war camp. |
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| site of a prisoner of war camp. |
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| Organized the American Red Cross |
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| Battle in which Lee won and Stonewall Jackson was killed. |
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| Surrounded and besiged by Ulysses s. Grant. Union won |
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| Lincoln's most famous speech after the battle of Gettysburg.(Union won) |
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| Conducted total war as Union General. |
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| Where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. |
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| outlawed slavery.except as punishment |
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| Humanitarian movement founded to protect human lives. |
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| A radical group which demanded rights for feedmen. |
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| A cold reconstruction plan that lincoln vetoed. |
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| Us. Gov. Agency that aided distressed freedmen. |
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| laws that limited African American's Rights. |
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| Nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction. |
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| Southern nickname for northerners who moved to the south also called Yankees. |
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| First African American in Us Congress. |
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| Landowner allows Tenant to use land in return of a portion of the crop harvested. |
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| Resides and farms on land owned by a landlord. |
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| White supremecist terroist organization. |
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| a economic depression lasting until 1879 originally called the great depression until the actual one it is now referred to as the LONG DEPRESSION. |
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| 19th president oversaw end of reconstruction period.1877-1881. |
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| Candidate for election in 1877. contreversial election. |
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| Allows a city or county to pass its own laws. |
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