Westward Expansion
Compromise created by Henry Clay in 1820 regarding slavery/westward expansion
Missouri Compromise
Abraham Lincoln is known for creating this political party in the 1850's.
Republican Party
He is Mr. J's favorite historical figure. He hates slavery and did some pretty intense stuff in Kansas and in Harpers Ferry.
John "The GOAT" Brown
First State to Secede from the United States
South Carolina
Reconstruction Amendment that says that no state can deny someone the right to vote based on race.
15th Amendment.
First Major Battle of the Civil War
1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
This agreement after a war between Mexico and The United States led to more debates about slavery
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Famous abolitionist who was born into slavery but escaped and spent years helping other slaves escape too.
Harriet Tubman
This is the name of the Union's "North" plan to defeat the South.
Anaconda Plan
Name of Lincoln's Vice President who was the first to oversee Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
Court Case in which the Supreme Court stated that African Americans are not considered citizens and therefore do not have the right to sue as well as overturning the Missouri Compromise.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Popular Sovereignty
This political party used to call themselves Federalists and would later become the Republican Party after losing to Democrats often.
Whig Party
Jefferson Davis
Bloodiest "Single Day" Battle of the Civil War
Antietam
Government Program that provided resources for newly freed people in the South during Reconstruction.
Freedmen's Bureau
Political group who actually believed in true equality for all people during Reconstruction.
Radical Republicans
Law that led to violence between Kansas & Missouri over Slavery
Kansas Nebraska Act
This Political Party was against slavery in the West not because of moral reasons but because farmers could not compete economically with Slave Owning Farms.
Free Soil Party
This non-violent abolitionist has a newspaper called "The Liberator" which supported the immediate end of slavery in all American States
William Lloyd Garrison
Name for when Irish immigrants started to riot and attack people in a city during the war.
New York City Draft Riots
Sharecropping
Nickname for the rifles that were smuggled into Kansas to help those fighting to keep Kansas a free state.
Beecher's Bibles
This man created two different Compromises regarding slavery in his lifetime.
Henry Clay
Northern Democrat
Abraham Lincoln lost to this candidate when he ran for Senate in Illinois in 1858.
Stephen Douglas
Government Order that freed slaves in Confederate States (1863)
Emancipation Proclamation
His election in 1876 is considered to be the end of Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Gettysburg Address
Wilmot Proviso
This political party existed shortly before the Civil War began. Their only goal was to prevent the United States from having a Civil War.
Constitutional Bell Party
This man became a hero in the north and a villain in the South after his famous "March to the Sea" in the Civil War.
William "Tecumseh" Sherman
Name for the South's Strategy to defeat the North during the war.
Cotton Diplomacy
What year did the economy go bad during Ulysses S. Grant (Panic of ________
1873
Group of African American soldiers who were the first to see actual combat for the north.
54th Massachusetts Regiment.