Manifest Destiny
This law created funds to negotiate treaties with Indians to get them to move West
Indian Removal Act
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this powerful novel about slavery
UNcle Tom's Cabin
This was the first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Abraham Lincoln signed this document which freed slaves in Confederate states but not in "border" states
Emancipation Proclamation
This terrorist group emerged to terrorize and disempower African-Americans at the end of the CIvil War
Ku Klux Klan
During the Texas Revolution, America lost this battle, but it inspired other Texans to remember it and continue to fight
Alamo
This former slave became an important abolitionist by publishing a newspaper and giving speeches about slavery
Frederick Douglas
This was the name of the overall strategy of the Union during the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
Name two of the four slave states which did not choose to fight alongside the confederacy
delaware, maryland, kentucky, missouri
This organization was created to help freed slaves after the War
Freedman's Bureau
The Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state, but it also made this other state a free state
Maine
This enslaved man sued for his freedom but lost in an infamous Supreme Court Case
Dred Scott
This man was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
The Union Army's strategy was to split the Confederate army down this river
Mississippi
Many southern African-AMericans entered this system of farm labor which was not much different than slavery
This negotiation made California a free state, but it also created a harsher fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
This slave led a violent slave rebellion in Virginia and was later tried and hanged
Nat Turner
This was the name of the overall strategy of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Offensive-Defensive
In the Gettysburg Address what was Lincoln referring to when he said "four score and seven years ago"?
1776, declaration of independence
this amendment ended slavery in the US
13th
This act went against the Missouri Compromise, allowing two new states above 36 degrees latitude to vote on the issue of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This white man attempted to lead a slave revolt by attacking Harper's Ferry in 1859. His sons died in the attacj and he was captured and executed.
John Brown
What were two advantages of the North over the South
population, factory production, railroads, telegraph
This battle allowed the Union to successfully divide the Confederate army in two
Vicksburg
In exchange for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South, Democrats agreed to allow this Republican to become president in 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes