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Free Soil Party

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evolved in the 1840s in response to the growing split
between pro- and anti-slavery movements in the United States.

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Fugitive Slave Law

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declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.[1]
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Harriet Tubman

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African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

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Ostend Manifesto

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The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain and implied the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Allowed people the choice of slavery

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Wilmot Proviso

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one of the major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future

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William Lloyd Garrison

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was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

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Frederick Douglass

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an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement,

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Popular Sovereignty

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the belief 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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Underground Railroad

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network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists

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Compromise of 1850

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passed in September 1850, defusing a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North that arose following the Mexican-American War

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Dred Scott Decision

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ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.

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Panic of 1857

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a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over expansion of the domestic economy.

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Uncle Toms Cabin

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novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War",

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Bleeding Kansas

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a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, the argument was whether Kansas was going to join the union or become a slave state

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Crittenden Compromise

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an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861

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Fort Sumter

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a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.
- first shots of the war

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Freedman's Bureau

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a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865-1872, during the Reconstruction era

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Lincoln's 10% Plan

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It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation.

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Black Codes

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unofficial laws put in place in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks.

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Ku Klux Klan

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advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism

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Seward's Folly

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what they called the purchase of alaska

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Morril Tariff Act 1861

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an American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan,

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Homestead Act 1862

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one of two United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres (65 hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River

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Legal Tender Act 1862

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Cases primarily involved the constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act of 1862 enacted during the Civil War.

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Pacific Railway Act 1862

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series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.

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National Bank Act 1863

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The National Bank Acts were two United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks, the United States national banks

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Battle of Vicksburg

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final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Battle of Gettysburg

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fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War

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Copperheads

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vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War,

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New York Draft Riots1863

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violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

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Appomattox

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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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Trent Affair

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was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War

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Freedman's Bureau

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a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865-1872, during the Reconstruction era

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Lincoln's 10% Plan

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It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation.

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Black Codes

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unofficial laws put in place in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks.