Antebellum Period
Legislation that forced indigenous groups to Oklahoma.
The Indian Removal Act
A network of safe houses that helped lead escape slaves to the North.
The Underground Railroad
Freed slaves in all states that had seceded from the union.
Emancipation Proclamation
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, highlighted by Pickett's Charge.
The Battle of Gettysburg
What was the 13th Amendment?
It officially ended slavery in the United States.
Famous abolitionist who participated in Bleeding Kansas and led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
The President, elected in 1860, that would be forced to take a stance on slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
A new type of warship that was able to withstand far more damage than those that had come before it.
Ironclad
The battle that held the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.
Antietam
One of the two main avenues of Reconstruction, also sometimes called the 10% plan.
Presidential Reconstruction
The President that instituted the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
A law that made it legal for people to enter the North and capture anyone who had escaped slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
A strategy that involved the Union capturing southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
The Anaconda Plan
A key victory for the Union that allowed them to have control of the Mississippi River.
The Siege of Vicksburg
One of the two main avenues of Reconstruction, resulted in martial law being imposed upon the South.
Congressional Reconstruction
The chief of the Cherokee people who tried to unsuccessfully negotiate a treaty with the US.
The name Southerners gave to the Tariff of 1828.
Tariff of Abominations
The President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
A Confederate victory after which General Lee marched 75,000 Confederate soldiers into Pennsylvania.
The Battle of Chancellorsville
Two groups that exploited the conditions of the postwar South by purchasing as much land and personal property as they could.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
A theory that says that states have the right to declare federal laws to be void if they believed that they were unconstitutional.
Doctrine of Nullification
The idea that people should be able to vote as to whether their state would be a free soil state or a slave state. (Led to Bleeding Kansas)
Popular Sovereignty
What were the advantages and disadvantages that each side held during the Civil War?
See slide 12 and 13 of American Civil War Slideshow.
The first major land battle of the Civil War that ended in embarrassing defeat for the Union.
The (1st) Battle of Bull Run (Southerners call it the Battle of Manassas)
An organization funded by the government and other various entities that provided support for former slaves.
Freedman's Bureau