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a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner killing at least 65 people
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a weekly newspaper of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
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an abolitionist society created by William Lloyd Garrison. It was the most prominent abolitionist organization in the 19th century
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a series of newspapers published responding to Catherine Beecher's defense of the subordinate role of a women
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this meeting launched women's suffrage movement
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an attempt to avert a crisis between the North and the South. It defused a four year political confrontation between free and slave states.
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a part of the Compromise of 1850 it provided to the seizure and return of any runaway slave who escapes from state to state
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a speech given by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights Convention held in Akron Ohio. Here her speech spoke about her position on women's rights
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a anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe widely read when President Lincoln met Stowe in 1862
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act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves to be freed states or slave states
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former members of the Whig party establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.
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a military conflict were a series of violent civil confrontations which came from the political and ideological debate over if slavery should be legal
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a decision in the Dred Scott case affirming the right of slave owners to bring slaves into the western territories
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the second of four proposed constitutions in Kansas written in response to to the anti-slavery position of the 1855 Topeka Constitution
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a financial panic caused by declining international economy and over-expansion of domestic economy
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a series of seven debates between republican candidate and democratic candidate Stephen A. Douglas
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an effort by John Brown an abolitionist to start a slave revolt by taking over a US arsenal at Harper's Ferry
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during the election of 1860 the Democratic Party split into two this benefited the republicans
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South Carolina seceded from the Union upon Lincoln's election. This secession of states quickly formed the Confederacy
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Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President the first Republican in office
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the Confederate States were founded as the ongoing conflict between slavery in the North and South continued.
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the opening engagement of the American Civil War
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a battle in Sharpsburg Maryland that pitted the Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army against the Union's General. It was also the culmination of Lee's attempt to invade the North
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a presidential proclamation changing the legal status of slaves (freeing of slaves)
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a presidential speech given by Abraham Lincoln in dedication to the soldiers lost in the Battle of Gettysburg
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a battle in the town of Gettysburg Pennsylvania between the Union and the Confederates during the American Civil War
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President Lincoln tasks the future president Ulysses S. Grant with leading Union troops against the Confederate Army
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a military campaign of the American Civil War , the intent was to scare the Georgian population into abandoning the Confederate Army
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Northern voters endorse the policies and leadership of President Lincoln and they then elect him for another term
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abolishment of slavery in America
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this effectively ends the American Civil War
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he was our 17th and was Vice President at the time of Lincolns Assassination
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this plan gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery and offered no role to blacks in the politics in the South
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After the Civil War many Northerners went to the South in hopes of an economical gain these people were called carpetbaggers. Scalawags were white Southern Republicans
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a government agency meant to help former black saves and poor whites on the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
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a murderous attack on our 16th President Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC by John Wilkes Booth
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original a secret social fraternity that turned into a paramilitary force bent of reversing the reconstruction era in the South especially policies involving black rights
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granted all citizens the full equal benefit of law and proceedings for the security of persons and property
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legislation in action that outlined the conditions of which the Southern states would be readmitted into the Union
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grants citizenship to all persons born in the US which included former slaves who'd just been freed after the Civil War
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first President to be impeached. 11 article votes from the House of Representatives
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granting African American men the right to vote
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18th President of the United States also served in the Civil War
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first US Supreme Court interpretation of the 14th amendment
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the return of white supremacy and the removal of rights for blacks
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a court case that arose from the Colfax Massacre in 1873
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a faction of the regular Republican Party
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an informal, unwritten deal that settled the US Presidential election. It resulted in the government pulling out troops in the South and formally ended the Reconstruction Era
