Vocabulary Words
States from the Union leaving to form the Confederacy
What is secession?
16th president who worked to free slaves in the South
What is Abraham Lincoln?
The idea by god that the US should spread its democracy and control North America.
What is Manifest destiny?
The reason the Civil War was fought
What is slavery?
The assassination of a key political figure on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
What is Abraham Lincoln's Assassination?
Granted freedom to all slaves in the South if the Union won the war
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
American abolitionists who helped rescue enslaved people through an Underground Railroad.
What is Harriet Tubman?
1848: Discovery of "gold" in California that drew in many migrants from within the country.
What is the Gold rush?
Southern states that were in favor of slavery, was formed on February 4, 1861 after seceding from the Union.
What is The Confederacy?
First battle of the Civil War - Confederate victory. Officially started the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
California became a free state, improved fugitive slave law and ended slave trade in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A leader of the abolition movement to end the practice of slavery (escaped from Maryland)
What is Frederick Douglass?
War caused by the desire of the US to acquire northern land in Mexico
What is the Mexican American War?
Northern states that opposed slavery led by Abraham Lincoln.
What is The Union?
Allowed people living in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. - 1854
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Defining national citizenship along and forbidding states to restrict basic rights of the citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
17th US president: Helped with the transition from slavery to freedom
What is Andrew Johnson?
Treaty of Peace between Mexico & US in which ended the Mexican American war and gave the US more territory
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Amendment that officially abolished slavery
What is The 13th Amendment?
An agency that helped the transition from slavery to freedom to blacks in the South. Established 1865.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
Rebuilding the South in order to unify the Union and Confederacy as a united nation.
What is the Reconstruction era?
Boston's leading abolitionist who wrote a statement against slavery by a free African American
What is Henry Weeden?
A way in which the US gained more land and affected society over the debate of slavery
What is Westward Expansion?
Series of laws passed by the South in an attempt to restrict African American's freedom after the Civil War.
What is Black Codes?
Case - March 6, 1857. Declared the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and African Americans could not be citizens of the United States, therefore not be able to sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?