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Compromise of 1850
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
Secession
The formal withdrawl of a state from the Union.
Popular Sovereignty
A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
Stephen Douglas
American politician who designed the Kansas - Nebraska Act.
Underground Railroad
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
Fugitive Slave Law
A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to endure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed slavery as a moral evil.
Kansas - Nebraska Act
A law enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the USA, served from March 1861, until his assassination April 1865.
Nativism
Favoring the inerests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
Republican Party
The modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v.s. Sandford)
A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in which the court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free couldn't be American Citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories aquired after the creation of the US.
Harper's Ferry
October 16, 1959 (also know as John Brown's raid or the raid on Harper's Ferry) an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid accompanied by 20 men, was defeated by a detachment of US marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.
Confederate States of America
(confederacy) a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the Union.
Antietam
(battle) 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 Union soil.
Gettysburg
(battle) fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
Anaconda Plan
A three-part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the confederacy in the civil war.
Robert E. Lee
An American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.
Ulysses S. Grant
The 18th president of the US (1869-1877). In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War, which ended shortly after Robert E. Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox.
Appomattox Court House
A town near Appomattox, Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865.
Emancipation Proclamation
An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
Habeas Corpus
A court order requiring authorities to bring a prisoner before the court so that the court can determine whether the prisoner is being held legally.
Conscription
The drafting of citizens for military service.
Civil War
(battle) fought from 1861 to 1865. 7 southern slave states individually declared their sucession from the US and formed the Confederacy. States that did not declare sucession were known as the Union. This war was caused by the debatable subject of slavery. After four years of this war, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and reconstruction of national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves began.
Gettysburg Address
A famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.