The Civil War

By Alyiah

  • Cotton Gin

    A machine that quickly seperates cotton fibers from their seeds. The cotton gin led to the growrh of slavery in the south, contributing to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Passed in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress.

  • Free Soil Party

    A political party in the United States, founded in Buffalo, New York. It was a third party and single issue party that appealed to its greatest strength from New York State.

  • Harriet Tubman

    An African-American abolitionist who escaped slavery, and saved more than 300 slaves. The creator of the Underground Railroad and a huge legacy in the United States.

  • Compromise ofm1850

    Package of five bills passed which defused a four year confrontation between the slave states of the south and free states of the north. It reduced sectional conflict for four years.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Act that required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters. Officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law.

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An anti-slavery autobiography by Frederick Douglass. Douglass describes his life as a slave and his struggle for freedom.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    An anti- slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.

  • Kansas- Nebraska Act

    Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska that opened new lands for settlememt. It repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine popular sovereignity.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Series of violent political confrontations in the United States that involved anti-slavery free-staters and pro-slavery.Took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri.

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that says that African Americans could not be American citizens and had no standing to sue in federal court. The federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories.

  • Election of 1860

    Presidential Election of Abraham Lincoln. 19th quadrennial presidential election and the impetus outbreak of the American Civil War.

  • The Beginning of the Civil War

    Huge war between the north ans the south. More than 3 million men fought in the war and more than 620,000 died in the war