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a secret society of white Southerners in the United States
  • impeachment
  • ku klux klan
  • john c. beckinridge
  • inflation
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
  • abraham lincoln
  • robert e. lee
  • john brown
  • jefferson davis
the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
  • reconstruction
  • emancipation proclamation
  • battle of gettysberg
  • total war
Democrats chose him during the election to become the 16th president
  • impeachment
  • john c. beckinridge
  • popular sovereignty
  • william t. sherman
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  • jefferson davis
  • robert e. lee
  • gettysberg address
  • john brown
President of the Confederate States of America
  • andrew johnson
  • jefferson davis
  • abraham lincoln
  • robert e. lee
system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
  • john brown
  • sharecropping
  • Wilmot proviso
  • robert e. lee
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • harriet beecher stowe
  • john c. beckinridge
  • popular sovereignty
  • william t. sherman
political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
  • free-soil party
  • impeachment
  • william t. sherman
  • habeas corpus
The bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools.
  • radical republican
  • freedman's bureau
  • gettysberg address
  • abraham lincoln
This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
  • anaconda plan
  • battle of gettysberg
  • Kansas-Nebraska act
  • emancipation proclamation
Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  • john c. beckinridge
  • compromise of 1850
  • popular sovereignty
  • ulysses s. grant
Lincoln delivered this speech. He mourned for the dead and said that all men were created equal.
  • jefferson davis
  • abraham lincoln
  • gettysberg address
  • john brown
a general and progressive increase in prices
  • inflation
  • ku klux klan
  • impeachment
  • william t. sherman
17th President of the United States
  • jefferson davis
  • andrew johnson
  • robert e. lee
  • abraham lincoln
16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
  • abraham lincoln
  • andrew johnson
  • robert e. lee
  • jefferson davis
Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
  • anaconda plan
  • emancipation proclamation
  • thirteenth amendment
  • dred scott v. sandford
general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south
  • harriet beecher stowe
  • john c. beckinridge
  • william t. sherman
  • free-soil party
1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that livig in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitional
  • crittenden compromise
  • battle of gettysberg
  • thirteenth amendment
  • dred scott v. sandford
the turning point in the war, Lee was badly defeated & gave up plans to invade the Union. The war was then draged on for 2 more long years.
  • total war
  • battle of gettysberg
  • reconstruction
  • anaconda plan
Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south
  • Kansas-Nebraska act
  • total war
  • reconstruction
  • anaconda plan
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