People
This long-winded newly inaugurated president died of pneumonia he contracted after giving the second longest speech ever.
William Henry Harrison
The conclusion of this major conflict in 1848 heightened tensions between supporters and opponents of the expansion of slavery into the West.
The war officially started with the secession of this "palmetto" state.
South Carolina
Congress established this agency to help provide food, clothing, and education for formerly enslaved persons.
Freedman's Bureau
Most of the nation's industrial capacity located in this region.
Enslaved person/slave.
While most abolitionists were pacifists, this man was willing to use violence to overthrow the institution.
John Brown
The publication of this book, by author Harriet Beecher Stowe, served as a major abolitionist propaganda tool. It was read by an overwhelming majority of Northerners.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
These southerners especially became tired of sending their husbands and sons to fight for richer men to keep slaves.
Women.
Klu Klux Klan
Before the spread of the railroad, the easiest way to move cargo were on these natural highways
Rivers
In the 1830s and 1840s what percentage of northerners were "immediate abolitionists"?
10%
Harriet Tubman
This "golden" state entered as part of the failed Compromise of 1850.
California
This amendment, passed without Southern Democrats in Congress, abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment (XIII)
This Latin expression means "the way things were before the war"
Status Quo Antebellum
Ships powered by this hot vapor could move people and products MUCH faster than by sail.
Steam
During the prewar years large numbers of refugees arrived fleeing a terrible famine on this emerald island.
Ireland
The election of this man spurred South Carolina to secede. 10 other states would follow.
Beginning in the 1830s, white Southerners blamed this people in particular for rebellions of enslaved people.
Abolitionists.
A blockade around all southern ports stopped the export of this cash crop.
Cotton
These brutal laws passed in the South immediately following the war were meant to replicate the conditions of slavery.
Black Codes
Nicknamed "Seward's Folly" by some opponents, vast, frigid, and unknown riches were acquired here in what is still the nation's largest territory.
Alaska
The Dred Scott case ruled that persons of African descent could not be this
Citizens
Besides being president during the US-Mexico War, this big believer in Manifest Destiny also settled the dispute over the border of the Oregon Territory.
James K. Polk
This law allowed slave owners to retrieve formerly enslaved people from free states. It infuriated Northerners.
Fugitive Slave Law.
A scorched earth run to the Atlantic, Atlanta burns, and the South is cut in two.
Sherman's March to the Sea
This group of Republicans wanted Congress to oversee Reconstruction, not the president. We also have them to thank for the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Radical Republicans.
This invention helped industrialize cotton production.
The gin
Over 30 years, more than 100,000 escaped on this "subterranean line" to freedom, some aided with the help of Harriet herself.
The 17th president, successor to Lincoln, and first ever to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
This law allowed new territories to decide themselves, through a popular vote, whether to be free or slave.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This order liberated only enslaved people in rebellious states, not those in Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri.
Emancipation Proclamation
The year Reconstruction ended.
1877
One of the reasons casualties were so high during the Civil War was a lack of understanding of these invisibly tiny warriors.
Germs
These violent confrontations in New York City in 1863 were started mostly by Irish immigrants opposed to the war.
Draft Riots.
A former general and the 18th president, he oversaw and was a supporter of Reconstruction.
Ulysses S. Grant
The formation of this party in 1854 led to the only ever election of a third party candidate for president in 1860.
Republican Party
The bloodiest and most decisive battle of the war. Eulogized by President Lincoln in one of the most famous speeches in American history.
Gettysburg
This amendment overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford and established citizenship for anyone born in the territory of the U.S.
14th Amendment (XIV)
Trains, streetcars, and all other forms of public transportation could be legally segregated after the ruling in this 1896 case.
Plessy v. Ferguson
After a series of revolutions rocked central Europe in 1848, millions of these Teutonic people would emigrate to the US.
Germans
The last peacetime president before the Civil War. He did little to stop the march to war and is generally rated among the worst presidents in history.
James Buchanan
Lincoln's position on slavery upon election can best be described as this, meaning he wished to stop its expansion but not abolish it.
Free soil.
The Courthouse where Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant.
Appomattox
This amendment guaranteed universal male suffrage, regardless of race.
15th Amendment (XV)
In 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, a golden spike was pounded into a steel rail, completing this nationwide transportation network.
Transcontinental Railroad.
This exploitative economic system succeeded slavery, entrapping many newly freed-slaves (and poor whites).
Sharecropping.
Hiram Revels.
Brutal fighting between supporters of slavery and abolitionist settlers led to almost 200 deaths in the lead up to the Civil War in this territory out on the Great Plains.
(Bleeding) Kansas
The approximate total number of men killed in the fighting of the war.
600,000
Congressional Republicans wanted this percentage of Confederates to swear loyalty to the Union in order for a state to be restored.
50%
Using various codes, including Morse, messages could be sent through cables across whole continents and eventually the oceans using this technology.
Telegraph
An example of cultural syncretism of Christian and African cultures is this ceremony, often performed at black weddings.
Jumping the broom