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| Republican Party | Political party formed by Horace Greeley that included anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, & Free-Soilists. |
| Know-Nothing Party | Popular name for the American party. Used secret pass words. |
| nativism | Policy favoring native born over immigrants. |
| Free-Soil Party | Political party formed in 1848 to oppose the expansion of slavery. |
| Horace Greeley | Founder of the Republican Party |
| Franklin Pierce | 14th President: Democrat |
| John C. Frémont | Republican Presidential candidate for 1856 election |
| James Buchanan | 15th president: Democrat |
| Jefferson Davis | The President of the Confederate States of America. |
| Harpers Ferry | Local abolitionist John Brown raided this area arsenal to start a slave revolt. |
| Roger B. Taney | The Supreme Court Chief Justice in charge of the Dred Scott case. |
| Confederacy | The name of the collective group of states that seceded from the union. |
| Dred Scott | Missouri slave who sued for his freedom all the way to the Supreme Court and lost. |
| Freeport Doctrine | This states that if the people do not want slavery in their state, then they have to elect officials that will not enforce slave laws. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican anti-slavery candidate who lost the 1858 Senate election but won the 1860 presidency. |
| JGeneral Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jacksonackson | One of the major military leaders and generals for the Confederacy. Died in battle. |
| Fort Sumter | Site of the opening engagement of the Civil War |
| First Bull Run (First Manassas) | First major battle of the Civil War - both sides were ill-prepared. |
| General George McClellan | First Commanding Union general in the Civil War. Due to slow pursuit was fired. |
| General Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of Union forces that used "total war" tactics to overwhelm South. |
| Battle of Shiloh | Battle that opened the way for the North to split the South in two |
| Admiral David G. Farragut | In charge of decisive Northern victory at the Port of New Orleans. |
| General Robert E. Lee | Major leader and general for the Confederacy. Best military leader in the Civil War. |
| Richmond, VA | Capital of the Confederacy |
| Battle of Antietam | Turning point in war for North. Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation due to win. |
