The Civil War
The President during the Civil War period
The amendment that formally abolished slavery in the United States
The 13th Amendment
The compromise by Henry Clay that aimed to combine the major proposals for how to deal with slavery in the US after the Mexican-American war
Compromise of 1850
The conflict over the annexation of this Mexican territory (now US state) was a large cause of the war
Texas
The sole republican candidate and winner of the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
The event that began the war in which South Carolina troops opened fire on a Union fort that had been sent supplies by Lincoln
Fort Sumter
Ten-Percent Plan
The man who proposed expansion of slavery with no restrictions and viewed slavery as a "positive good"
John C. Calhoun
The President of the United States during the Mexican-American war period
James K. Polk
The phenomenon of southern states getting fed up with the federal opposition to the expansion of slavery and rebelling against the Union
Southern Secession
The first attack on Confederate forces in the war in which 30,000 federal troops marched to attack the Confederate troops in Virginia. Confederacy prevailed
First Battle of Bull Run
The Radical Republicans
The antislavery movement that opposed slavery for economic reasons and suggested that slavery was a threat to free labor in the north
Free Soil Movement
The names of white Americans and Mexican Natives, respectively
Anglos and Tejanos
The first state to draft their articles of secession in 1860, claiming that the election was rigged.
South Carolina
The march of Union troops to Atlanta, a major Confederate railroad hub, that eventually made the Confederacy surrender
Sherman's March to the Sea
The amendment that formally established birthright citizenship for those formerly enslaved and said that Americans' civil rights could not be infringed upon by states
The 14th Amendment
A proposal for a structure that would allow each new states' citizens to vote on whether they want slavery or not
Popular Sovereignty
The three states that the U.S. gained from Mexico due to the war
California, New Mexico, Texas
The structure with which each political party solely represented a region of the United States (Republican=North, Democrat=South)
Sectional Parties
Which constitutional guarantee (says that citizens must be told why they are being arrested) did Abraham Lincoln suspend with his executive power during the Civil War to arrest 15k Confederate sympathizers
Habeus Corpus
Military Reconstruction Act
The raid led by an abolitionist leader, aiming to arm slaves in a rebellion against planters and southern leaders
John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry
A part of a federal funding bill that was added in by a Congressman (first name David) that mandated that slavery be banned in all land gained from the war
Wilmot Proviso
The sub-party that pushed John Bell as one of three democratic nominees and offered no solution to the issue of slavery
Constitutional Union Party