Reform & Early Ideas
These individuals (like teachers, writers, and activists) worked to improve society before the Civil War.
The Reform Era
This term describes loyalty to one region instead of the whole country.
Sectionalism
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This event marked the beginning of the Civil War.
The firing on Fort Sumter
This leader wanted to preserve the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
This early colonial agreement showed that people could create and follow their own laws.
The Mayflower Compact
This event involved violent clashes in a territory over whether slavery would be allowed.
Bleeding Kansas
This enslaved man argued he should be free because he had lived in a free territory.
Dred Scott
This battle was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
The Battle of Antietam
This leader supported states’ rights and led the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This idea means government gets its power from the people it governs.
Popular Sovereignty/Consent of the governed
This law allowed settlers to vote on slavery and led to increased tension and violence.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This law that was a part of the Compromise of 1850 angered many Northerners and increased support for abolition.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This battle is considered the turning point of the war.
The Battle of Gettysburg
This Union general led the army to victory.
Ulysses S. Grant
Reformers like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe focused on ending this institution.
Slavery
This issue was at the center of many disagreements about new territories.
The expansion of slavery
This court case increased sectional tension by supporting slaveholders’ rights.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This Union victory gave control of a major river and split the Confederacy.
Vicksburg
This Confederate general surrendered in 1865.
Robert E. Lee
This type of writing helped convince many Northerners that slavery was wrong.
Double Jeopardy: What book told people about the horrors of slavery and who is the author?
Abolitionist literature
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
These agreements tried to maintain balance between free and slave states.
The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
This issue caused conflict because people disagreed over whether slavery should be allowed in new territories.
The expansion of slavery
This event ended the war when the Confederate army surrendered.
Appomattox Court House
This leader emphasized unity and keeping the nation together in his speeches.
Abraham Lincoln