The first Democrat president, elected in 1828
Andrew Jackson
People who sought the gradual or immediate end to slavery.
Abolitionist
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel that became a bestseller in the north.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The southern states who seceded were known as the:
Confederacy
A tax on imported goods.
Tarriff
The name of the event when Andrew Jackson forced natives to move from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi to Oklahoma in 1831.
Trail of Tears
The agreement that added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a line that was meant to determine if future states would be free or slave states.
The Missouri Compromise
Famous abolitionist who believed in using violence in Harpers Ferry and Kansas.
John Brown
The well known general who led the southern forces.
Robert E Lee
1820s religious movement that swept across America.
Second Great Awakening
Which amendment had to be accepted in order for southern states to be readmitted to the Union.
14th
The agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state, and allow future states to vote on the issue of slavery.
The Compromise of 1850
The first Republican president who was elected in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the president in the south?
Jefferson Davis
The movement to end alcohol abuse.
Temprance Movement
The law that guaranteed African Americans the right to vote in the north.
15th amendment
The act that required northerners to aid in the return of escaped slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act
Federal agency designed to help aid freed slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
Northern general who won at Vicksburg and later became president.
Ulysses S. Grant
Bringing the south back into the union and reunifying the nation.
Reconstruction
A society that used terror throughout the south to try and discourage people from voting.
KKK
The supreme court decision that ruled that slaves are not citizens, and therefore can not sue.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Emancipation Proclamation was what amendment?
13th
The norths plan to slowly squeeze the south into submission.
Anaconda Plan
To try and remove somebody from office.
Impeach