Disunion
This 1820 law aimed to maintain balance in the US by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and declaring the Louisiana Purchase lands north of the 36degree parallel line free territory.
Missouri Compromise
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union upon the 1860 election of which American President?
Abraham Lincoln
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, this document declared enslaved people in rebelling states to be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
In the Presidential Election of 1864, this presidential candidate argued for the immediate end to the Civil War, even if it meant the continuation of slavery in the southern states.
McClellan
Ratified between 1865 and 1870, these three amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship to all persons born in the US, and prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude.
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments OR Reconstruction Amendments
The compromise of 1850 aimed to temporarily ease tensions over slavery by admitting California as a free state and strengthening which Act?
Fugitive Slave Act
Abraham Lincoln was the first American president from what political party?
Republican
This 1863 speech, honoring fallen Civil War soldiers, emphasized the ongoing fight for a "new birth of freedom."
Gettysburg Address
This 1864 campaign saw General Ulysses S. Grant's relentless push towards Richmond and is remembered for Grant's strategy of attrition against Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Overland Campaign
Had he not been assassinated, this was President Lincoln's plan for Confederate states to rejoin the Union. It required that a certain percent of voters swear an oath to the Union and was largely considered too lenient for most members of the Republican party.
10 Percent Plan
This 1854 act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowed territories to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty. Though the act sought to maintain balance in the US, it ultimately inflamed tensions over slavery in the West and led to "Bleeding Kansas."
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
This bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with over 22,000 casualties, stopped a Confederate invasion of Maryland. President Lincoln used the Union victory in this battle as a turning point to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
The surrender of this Confederate army, led by General Robert E. Lee, effectively (though not technically) ended the Civil War.
Army of Northern Virginia
This system of tenant farming replaced slavery in the post-Civil War South, with laborers working land for a share of the crops.
Sharecropping
This enslaved man's unsuccessful lawsuit for his freedom became a landmark Supreme Court case that heightened tensions over slavery.
Dredd Scott
This act produced the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens in American history, calling for the registration of all males between the ages of 20 and 45, including aliens with the intention of becoming citizens.
Conscription Act
Fought from July 1st to 3rd, 1863, this infamous battle took place in and around a small town in Pennsylvania and is considered to be the turning point of the American Civil War.
Gettysburg
General Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of this Virginia farmhouse in 1865.
Appomattox
Passed by Congress in 1867, these acts outlined very strict requirements for Southern states to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. This act divided the former Confederate states into military districts and mandated enfranchisement of Black men as a condition for readmission to the US.
Reconstruction Act
This short-lived 1850s political party opposed immigration and Catholicism. Founded as the Native American Party, this anti-immigrant group later changed its name to the American Party, but was more often referred to by its nickname, which it got from members' response to inquiries about their secretive meetings,
Know-Nothing Party
These seven debates in 1858 brought national attention to the issue of slavery in the territories and launched Abraham Lincoln onto the national stage.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
In a very controversial move, Lincoln suspended this writ, which refers to the legal procedure that prevents the government from holding an individual indefinitely without showing cause, in Maryland because of the high number of Confederate sympathizers in the state.
Habeas Corpus
This brutal 1864 Union military campaign led by General William Tecumseh Sherman ravaged Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah. Sherman aimed to cripple Southern morale and resources with this scorched-earth march through Georgia.
Sherman's March to the Sea
This unwritten deal secured the presidency for Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for federal troop withdrawal from the South, effectively ending Reconstruction and paving the way for Jim Crow segregation in the South.
Compromise of 1877