Pre-Civil War
This was used in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing people to vote to decide the status of slavery in their state.
Popular Sovereignty
The Union's (North) plan to cut off the south by blockading waterways.
Anaconda Plan
Abolished slavery in all of the United States.
13th Amendment
This group was pushed out of their home lands and forced onto reservations.
Native Americans
The president of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
In a Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom but was ruled as not being a citizen with rights. This decision meant that being in a free state or territory did not make a slave free.
Dredd Scott Decision
This freed all slaves in rebelling states (Confederacy). This did not include slaves in border states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This group wanted harsh punishment of former Confederates.
Radical Republicans
The belief that it is America's "God-given" right to expand west.
Manifest Destiny
Known as the conductor of the Underground Railroad. Helped many slaves escape to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
Missouri would become a slave state while Maine would enter as a free state. No slavery above the 36'30' line.
Missouri Compromise
This battle was the major turning point of the Civil War that turned the tide of the war in the Union's favor.
Battle of Gettysburg
Gave the right to vote to all men, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
This connected the East and West coast of the United States and allowed for easier trade and travel across the country.
Transcontinental Railroad
Union general during the Civil War. Eventually becomes president but is known for scandal and corruption while in the White House.
Ulysses S. Grant
This was the final event that led to the outbreak of the Civil War. (in South Carolina)
Attack on Ft. Sumter
The winner of the Civil War.
The Union
Defines citizenship and gives equal protection under the law to all citizens.
14th Amendment
Gives free land in the west to American citizens.
Homestead Act
President after Lincoln's assassination. Known for limiting freedmen's rights and being impeached.
Andrew Johnson
California would enter as a free state. The Fugitive Slave Act was enacted.
Compromise of 1850
Battle of Antietam
Limited the rights of African Americans in the south.
Black Codes
Breaks up tribal lands. Ends up leading to white settlers taking Native American land in the west.
Dawes Act
Author of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that exposed the realities of slavery. Created more tension and division in the United States leading up to the Civil War.
Harriet Beecher Stowe