People
author of Uncle Tom's cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Missouri got to enter as a free state, Maine got to enter as a free state, and the Louisiana Territory was split based on this document
Missouri Compromise
the South decided to _________ after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
secede
Robert E. Lee's army were forced to retreat back to the southern states; this is a turning point in the war
Battle of Gettysburg
a strong devotion or loyalty to one's state (a cause of the Civil War)
Sectionalism
filed a lawsuit in an attempt to gain his freedom
Dred Scott
California enters as a free state with this document
Compromise of 1850
a person who gave speeches or wrote against the practice of slavery was known as an ____________
abolitionist
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
Jim Crow Laws
allowing voters in the western territories to decide whether the area would be slave or free land
popular sovereignty
led a slave revolt in Harper's Ferry
John Brown
Dred Scott Decision
After the Civil War, many freed men participated in the ________ system which left them poor
sharecropping
this group kept African Americans from exercising their rights, they were often violent.
Ku Klux Klan
the time period after the Civil War where the U.S. worked to rebuild the southern states
reconstruction
conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
document issued by Lincoln that declares all slaves free
Emancipation Proclamation
violence that erupted between proslavery and antislavery settlers over whether Kansas would be slave or free
Bleeding Kansas
this amendment stated that all people born in the U.S. are citizens
14th amendment
the separation of African Americans and Whites after the Civil War was known as __________
segregation
Abraham Lincoln
this amendment ends slavery in the U.S.
13th amendment
a series of aboveground escape routes and trails used by runaway slaves
Underground Railroad
this amendment gave African American males the right to vote
15th amendment
a former slave who published the paper, "The North Star"
Frederick Douglass