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| An unsuccessful 1846 congressional amendment that sought to ban slavery in territories newly acquired from Mexico. |
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| Second great compromise between Northern and Southern states over the slavery issue; resulted in the admission of California as a free state and a fugitive slave law protecting the South. |
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| A notion that political power or the power to govern is derived from the people. As such, the people retain the right to rescind any grant of power to the government. |
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| United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery. |
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| The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. |
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| A secret cooperative network that aided fugitive slaves in reaching sanctuary in the free states or in Canada in the years before the abolition of slavery in the United States. |
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| United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North. |
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| United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause. |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in response to the Fugitive Slave Act. In it she presented slaves as real people to a northern audience that was moved by the trials and tribulations of Uncle Tom and his family. |
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| The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. |
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| An abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. |
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| A series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri. |
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| A sociopolitical policy, especially in the United States in the 19th century, favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants. |
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| A former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics. |
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| A former political party in the United States; formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories. |
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| He was the 15th president and president before Lincoln. |
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| United States journalist with political ambitions. |
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| United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
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| United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens. |
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| 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth. |
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| During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, Douglas declared that, even in the face of the Dred Scott decision, the people of a territory could exclude slavery simply by not passing the local laws essential for holding blacks in bondage |
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| A town in northeastern West Virginia. It is noted for a raid in October 1859 in which John Brown and a group of abolitionists captured a Federal arsenal here. |
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| A league or alliance, esp. of confederate states. |
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| American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. |
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| A historic site in the harbor of Charleston in South Carolina. It is the site of the beginning of the Civil War 1861. |
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| The Anaconda Plan is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. |
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| A stream in eastern Virginia that was the scene of two Confederate victories in 1861 and 1862, during the Civil War. |
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| General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall. |
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| A major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. |
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| 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. |
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| A historic site in southwestern Tennessee. Site of a major Civil War battle in April 1862. |
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| A flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and full admiral of the Navy. |
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| The most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. |
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| He was a career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause. |
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| Historic site in northwestern Maryland, scene of a major Civil War battle in 1862. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| The announcement made by President Lincoln during the Civil War on September 22, 1862, emancipating all slaves in states still engaged in rebellion against the Union. |
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| The announcement made by President Lincoln during the Civil War on September 22, 1862, emancipating all slaves in states still engaged in rebellion against the Union |
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| Fort Pillow State Park is a state park in western Tennessee that preserves the American Civil War site of the Battle of Fort Pillow |
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| A village in southwestern Georgia, site of a Confederate prison during the Civil War. |
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| She was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross. |
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| A historic locality in northeastern Virginia, site of a Civil War battle in May 1863. |
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| In 1863, during the Civil War, it was successfully besieged by Union forces. |
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| A speech delivered on November 18, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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| An American soldier, businessman, educator and author. |
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| Where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the War between the States. |
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| Amendment that outlawed slavery. |
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| A humanitarian organization that brings relief to victims of war or natural disaster. Created by Clara Barton. |
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| United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln. |
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| A thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed. |
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| A loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. |
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| Was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. |
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| Was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen in 1865-1872, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. |
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| A 1985 post-bop jazz album by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Originally released on record, it was reissued on CD in 1990. It is widely considered to be one of Marsalis' best albums. |
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| guaranteed rights to citizenship including the right to vote to all males 21 years old and older. |
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| The amendment prohibits states from denying the right to vote on grounds of race or color. |
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| A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during the Reconstruction, often for personal profit. |
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| A political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. Also, a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. |
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| Was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate |
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| small farmers and tenants. |
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| A person who farms rented land. |
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| A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism. |
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| Marked a severe international economic depression in Europe and United States that lasted until 1879, and even longer in some countries. |
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| 19th President of the United States from March 4, 1877 to March 4, 1881. He also served as the Governor of Ohio twice, from 1868–1872 and 1876–1877 |
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| Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century. |
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| refers to a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional Reconstruction. |
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| The government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens |
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| 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875) |
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