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| was a 19th-century American planter, statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, where he served as Speaker. |
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| was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist |
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| an American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. |
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| Forced the Indians out of their homelands for new american territory |
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| the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man typified by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. |
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| a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century |
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| a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. |
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| a labor and production model employed in the United States, particularly in New England, during the early years of the American textile industry in the early 19th Century. |
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| an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. |
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| a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification |
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| the first major financial crisis in the United States |
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| a Christian revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. |
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| an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848 |
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| the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. |
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| a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party |
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| a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States |
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| a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. |
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| a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages |
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| a name given to the relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
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| a group of ideas in literature and philosophy that developed in the 1830s and 1840s as a protest against the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School. |
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| a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy |
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| a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. |
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| n ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system |
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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 roughly between 1854 and 1858. |
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| an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859 |
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| a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) |
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| an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860 |
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| a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants,[2] whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens |
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| a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections |
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| passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers |
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| created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help settlement in them, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries and to settle there |
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| the political principle that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power |
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| an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. |
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| a series of battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that culminated in the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the effective end of the American Civil War |
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| were slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861 |
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| Confederate States of America |
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| was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. The U.S. government (The Union) rejected secession as illegal, and, after its army was fired upon at the Battle of Fort Sumter, used military action to defeat the C.S.A |
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| was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President for its entire history. |
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| state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. |
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| is the name of three distinct past and present far-right[6][7][8][9] organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. |
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| a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
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| a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North) |
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| a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War |
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| a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g. 50% of the crop). |
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