Slavery in the West
He was a prominent Senator from Kentucky who introduced the Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850. He also ran for president four times and never won.
Henry Clay
This law required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and denied enslaved people the right to a jury trial.
The Fugitive Slave Law
A series of safe stops for African Americans escaping slavery in the South, predominantly run by free Black people in the North
The Underground Railroad
Many Southerners thought that this issue BESIDES slavery was a cause to secede from the Union.
State's Rights
He was selected as vice president for Lincoln's second term. He later took over the presidency after Lincolns assassination and was the first president to ever be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
This tool, invented by Greek astronomers and sailors, was instrumental for ocean navigation and astrological problems.
Astrolabe
This legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This state entered the Union as a "free state," or a state without slavery.
California
This Democratic politician from Mississippi served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
Jefferson Davis
The General was in charge of leading the Union troops after 1863 through the end of the War and later became President of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote
15th amendment
This act, put forth by British Prime Minister George Grenville during the American colonial period, was arguably the most important revenue generator to help pay for the massive debt created by the Seven Years' War.
1764 Sugar Act
This 1854 bill organized the remaining territory of the Louisiana Purchase into two parts. Each territory would decide for itself whether or not to permit slavery. This stipulation repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which stated that slavery was prohibited north of 36° 30′.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
These two western states were established as territories that could decide via popular sovereignty if they would permit slavery
Utah and New Mexico
This 1852 anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War."
Uncle Tom's Cabin
He was the General in charge of the Armies of the Confederate States of America.
Robert E. Lee
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
13th amendment
Under this early U.S. government construct, the national government could not effectively deal with Shays's Rebellion (1786) because it lacked the central military and money to raise a force sufficient enough to put it down.
The Articles of Confederation
This was a period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854.
Bleeding Kansas
This law defined new boundaries for this state following the Mexican-American War, removing its claims to parts of New Mexico but awarding the state $10 million in compensation
Texas
This prior African American slave was a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement and even met with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil war to advocate for black rights and equal treatment for black soldiers.
Frederick Douglass
This wartime executive action in 1863 changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free.
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment expanded citizenship rights to any person born in the United States, irrespective of race.
14th amendment
After 1573, the Spaniards relied on these tactics of forced assimilation, rather than soldiers, to expand Spanish sovereignty in the Americas, especially in sections that are now known as New Mexico.
missionaries (specifically Franciscans) and encomenderos
This was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over this United States arsenal in Virginia.
Harper's Ferry
The slave trade was abolished in this district
Washington .D.C.
These seven slave states South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas formed the ______________ on February 8, 1861?
The Confederate States of America
This 1863 address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Gettysburg Address;
Bonus: 87 years; 1776
These southern laws enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures sought to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period.
Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes
This governing guide worried President Jefferson about his legal ability to carry out the purchase of Louisiana Territory. In the end, Jefferson sided with the exceptional deal and submitted the treaty for ratification.
the strict-interpretation of the constitution.