Early Presidents
The first President of the United States, author of the "Farewell Address."
George Washington
This philosophy stated that (white) Americans had the God-given right to expand West.
Manifest Destiny
This abolitionist was a spy for the Union army but is most famous for her work taking runaway slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
The years that the Civil War took place
1861 - 1865
This white supremacist group used terror and violence to control the Black people of the south.
the KKK
This president is credited with ending slavery in America.
Abraham Lincoln
This transportation innovation allowed people and products to move quickly across the country in the 1800s.
Railroads
This enslaved minister lead one of the largest known slave revolts in the south before being captured and executed.
Nat Turner
This supposed country only existed for 4 years and was defeated by the Union, ending the Civil War.
The Confederacy
This blackface minstrel character is the namesake for the era of racial segregation and degradation in the south.
Jim Crow
This President Doubled the size of the United States in 1803
Thomas Jefferson
This deal made with France gave the U.S. control over the Mississippi river and greatly increased the land size of the U.S.
Louisiana Purchase
This decision stipulated that any new state above the southern border of Missouri would become a free state and below would become a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
This political party received no electoral votes from the south but still won the election preceding the Civil War, creating more tension between the North and South.
The Republican Party
This Constitutional Amendment officially outlawed slavery (with one major exception for convicted criminals).
The 13th Amendment
This President was responsible for the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
To make room for settlers, President Jackson put Native Americans on this harrowing journey.
Trail of Tears
This author published memoirs informing people of his life during slavery, and also served as an advisor to Lincoln during the Civil War.
Frederick Douglass
This holiday commemorates the day, well past the end of the Civil War, when enslaved Texans were informed by Federal troops that they had been emancipated.
Juneteenth
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation in the south.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This President was responsible for annexing parts of Cuba, Panama, and Puerto Rico.
Theodore Roosevelt
This is a state where many African Americans moved to escape Black Codes and the KKK.
Kansas
This enslaved man lost his supreme court case decided in 1857, enshrining into caselaw that the Federal government couldn't dictate what states had slavery and that enslaved people were not citizens and could not file lawsuits.
This borough in Pennsylvania was the site of the Civil War's bloodiest battle, made famous by the President's address given to memorialize the fallen.
Gettysburg
Two of the common restrictions placed on Black Men who wanted to vote in the south.
Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes.