Civil War

This president caused the secession of South Carolina and six other states imediantly.

Forcing someone to work for no pay

This book was published originally in the newspaper and then created into a book.

Those opposing slavery

Period of rebuilding the south and strenghtening the union as a whole.

Someone and a group of slaves had a plan to kill all of the planter families in their country.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Federal fort attack by confederate fire bands; immediantly signaled the start of the war.

California is a free state while New Mexico and Utuah are slave states.

Economic, (industry v. farming), geographic

Created to stop the spread of slavery in new territories.

Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Ulysess S. Grant.

Series of debates held between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas for Illinois Senate race.

Official name of the seceded states.

Gettysburg, Bull Run, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Antietam.

This declared Kansas and Nebraska territiories open to slavery but only by popular sovereignty.

This slave went to the Supreme Court, but they ruled that slaves are property not citizens.

Held at Harper's Ferry; wanted to seixe weapons to lead a revolt against slavery; he was hanged

Strict laws passed to limit the abilities of African Americans Emacipation Proclamation.

Allowing voting and majority wins.

This stated that all runaway slaves could and would be rounded up and returned to their owners.

Famous speech made by Lincoln

To break or pull away; 11 states did so during the Civil War.

Document written by Lincoln that gave slaves in the southern states immediate freedom.

States that did not offfically secede the union, but they showed southern support.