| A | B |
|---|
| sectionalism | having greater loyalty to a part of the country than the country as a whole |
| Compromise of 1850 | CA became a free state and Fugitive Slave Law was passed |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | instead of abiding by the Missouri Compromise, these states decided slavery through popular sovereignty |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | violence that erupted in this state due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Fugitive Slave Act | forced Northerns to return runaway slaves or face imprisonment |
| Dred Scott vs. Sanford | stated that blacks are property and have no citizenship rights |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | book by Harriett Beecher Stowe which further angered the North over issue of slavery |
| Republicans | political party agains expansion of slavery |
| free blacks | slaves which had been emancipated |
| Confederacy | Southern states that seceded from the Union |
| secession | formal withdrawal from the Union |
| Election of 1860 | final turning point for 7 states to secede from the Union |
| Inaugural Address | speech the President makes not long after being elected |
| Anaconda Plan | tactical strategy of Union forces which planned to "surround and strangle" the South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's declaration beginning Jan 1, 1863, that the slaves are freed |
| Gettysburg Address | speech made as a dedication to fallen soldiers that all men are created equal |
| Battle of Antietam | battle site which gave Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Battle of Vickburg | deciding battle over control of the Mississippi River |
| Battle of Gettysburg | battle seen as the major turning point of the War, South never able to recover |
| Appomattox | site of the surrender of Lee's Northern Virginia Army to Union General Grant |
| Reconstruction | period after the Civil War and rebuilding of the Union |
| black codes | South's way of ripping away rights of freed slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | government agency which helped freed slaves with basic needs |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment which officially outlawed slavery |
| 14th Amendment | amendment which gave any male born in the U.S. citizenship rights |
| 15th Amendment | amendment which gave African American males the right to vote |
| carpetbaggers | group of northerners who moved South after the Civil War (hated by South) |
| scalawags | Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War |
| sharecropping | sytem which the freed slave would work on a farm and give plantation owner half of crops |
| Homestead Act | gave land to Western settlers at little to no cost |
| Morrill Act | gave each state land to fund public colleges |
| Dawes Act | gave land to Native Americans in order to assimilate them into white society |
