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| A vote of the people that allowed them to directly make decisions in a state or territiory, it was used to determine the issue of slavery in new western states. |
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| An attempt to settle the issue of slavery in the United States, end up angering both the North and the South, increasing sectional difference. |
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| Overturned the Missouri Compromise by allowing state/territorypopulations to vote on the issue of slavery. |
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| Fight between pro and anti slave supporters after the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed popular sovereignty in the territory. |
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| Supreme Court that ruled no African-Americans, slave or free, were citizens and had no constitutional protection, increasing sectional differences. |
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| A Northerner that attemped to bring an end to slavery. |
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| The act of formally withdrawling from and organization as when the Southern states withdrew from the United States. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Presidential decision that freed all slaves in the areas rebelling against the union |
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A time period that lasted from 1865-1877 when the Federal Government attempted to rebuild and integrate the Southern states after the Civil War.
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| Members of congress that wanted to punish th Southern states for causing the Civil War. |
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